Phaunus Amphora Palhete Red

- A blend of native white Loureiro and red Vinhão grapes, dry-fermented with ambient yeast in a beeswax-lined clay amphora. It is a bit funky at first, with a hint of saline herbs complementing its aroma of dried rose petals and pot-pourri. The pale red tunic suggests cranberries and pomegranate, but a smoky meatiness brings it down to earth. Clay-like, almost, reflecting the vessel in which it was born, as if the wine were holding a deep conversation between fruit and fire, earth and sea.