Joao Pato Duckman Nerd Duck Tinto
$32.00
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Vintage: 2020
Region: Bairrada, Portugal
Viticulture: Sustainable
Grape varieties: Fernão Pires and Baga
Joao Pato Duckman Nerd Duck Tinto comes from 25-year-old vines of Baga and Fernão Pires. The grapes are co-fermented and aged six months.
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About Joao Pato Duckman Nerd Duck Tinto
Joao Pato Duckman Nerd Duck Tinto comes from 25-year-old vines of Baga and Fernão Pires. The vineyards are certified sustainable and sorted in the vineyard at harvest time on September 10th. The grapes are de-stemmed, spend five days on the skins, and co-fermented spontaneously in plastic lagar that lasts three weeks with no temperature control. The wine is aged in 600L casks for six months. Not fined or filtered.
About Joao Pato, aka Duckman
The Duckman wines express the true character of Bairrada’s indigenous varietals and its exceptional maritime influence. There are no indications of the region on the labels, done intentionally to demonstrate an acute sense of place and varietal typicity through minimal intervention in the cellar. Maria Pato, the daughter of Luis Pato, created this project because of her love of the region and varietals, so much so that she felt constrained by the standards of Bairrada winemaking. For both of them, only the indigenous varietals can be Bairrada wine, not imports that want to claim it as their own identity. Luis and Maria work from two main vineyards, Amoreira da Gândara which is composed of mostly sandy soils, and Óis do Bairro which is composed of mostly chalky-clay soils. Here they grow both red and white varietals: Baga, Bical, Cercial, and Fernão Pires (a.k.a. Maria Gomes).
