Loureiro do Tiago 2020
Region: Vinho Verde
Producer: Anselmo Mendes
With this wine, Tiago Mendes significantly elevates the average standard of Loureiro wines. Loureiro often serves as the base for wines with a charming aroma and infectious freshness, but ambitions rarely go beyond that.With this limited-edition Loureiro, Tiago demonstrates that far more is possible.
Total production: 1,700 bottles
| Volume | 75.0 cl. |
| Grape Variety | Loureiro |
| Drinking window | 2021-2030 |
| Alc. | 12.0% |
| Vinification | in 400-litre wooden barrels<br /> |
| Ripening | Six months in the wooden barrels where fermentation also took place.<br />The wine was then bottled in the spring of 2021 and aged in the bottle until the autumn of 2025.<br /><br /> |
Waar serveer je ’m bij?
The counterpart of his brother's Alvarinho: Tiago took Loureiro, the grape of the floral nose, and did with it exactly what nobody does with Loureiro — fermented it in 400-litre wooden barrels and then left it in them for six months. That combination is the whole reason this bottle exists: the bay-like, floral scent of the grape stays, but a creamy, almost nutty texture comes to sit beneath it. Six years in bottle has let all of that slide completely into place.
Oven-baked salmon trout with dill and lemon
Warm salad of smoked trout and potato
Serveren op 11–13 °C
We were there when Anselmo launched his first wines under his own name and we are still following him. Meanwhile, he grew to become 'mister Alvarinho'.
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