Intus Tinto 2023
Region: Alentejo
Producer: Natus Vini
Why we chose this wine
Through unique characteristics in its terroir, Vidigueira is synonymous of wine. With big temperature amplitude between day and night, the protection of Serra do Mendro promotes the maintenance of morning humidity in the vineyards.
From old vineyard Trincadeira and Aragonez grapes. This is a wine with fresh fruit, crisp acidity and lightness of body.
Open color, with a beautiful ruby red. Pure aroma of red fruits, where cherry stands out. In the mouth, its lightness and fresh acidity give context to a bright and delicate texture, with juicy and delicate tannins it's ready for immediate consumption.
From old vineyard Trincadeira and Aragonez grapes. This is a wine with fresh fruit, crisp acidity and lightness of body.
Open color, with a beautiful ruby red. Pure aroma of red fruits, where cherry stands out. In the mouth, its lightness and fresh acidity give context to a bright and delicate texture, with juicy and delicate tannins it's ready for immediate consumption.
| Volume | 75.0 cl. |
| Grape Variety | Trincadeira, Aragonez |
| Drinking window | 2025-2029 |
| Serveren bij | with grilled white or red meat, Pizza, Pasta with tomato sauce. |
| Alc. | 12.5% |
| Vinification | Low intervention winemaking begins with foot treading. The start of spontaneous fermentation takes it to the press and only the liquid fraction is sent to small stainless-steel tanks |
| Ripening | In stainless steel tank |
Waar serveer je ’m bij?
Minimal intervention here begins literally with the feet: the grapes are trodden, spontaneous fermentation starts at the press and finishes in small steel tanks. Trincadeira and Aragonez from an old vineyard, aged in steel, twelve and a half degrees. Crisp acidity, ruby red, clean red fruit with cherry up front.
Drie gerechten die werken
Grilled chicken with soy, ginger and honey
Pasta with minced meat and red wine
Grilled sea bream with tomato and onion
Pasta with minced meat and red wine
Grilled sea bream with tomato and onion
Vegetarisch
Pan-fried tofu with soy, ginger and spring onion
Minder geschikt bij
Heavily smoked dishes: smoke pushes the clear cherry fruit into the background.
Voor de Portugees geïnspireerde kok
Carne de alguidar — pork marinated in paprika paste and fried, preserving cookery from the Alentejo
Serveren op 14–15 °C
What the critics say
JancisRobinson.com
17/ 20
Tasted 29-08-2025
Drink: 2025–2028
Drink: 2025–2028
Full bottle 1,337 g. Old-vine Trincadeira and Aragonez are harvested by hand. Low-intervention winemaking begins with foot treading. When spontaneous fermentation starts, it is pressed and the free-run juice continues fermentation in small stainless-steel tanks. Ageing in a stainless-steel tanks, bottled unfiltered. TA 5.2 g/l, pH 3.59.
Lightish red. Pure, gently stony, dark-red fruits. Enticing and charming without a suggestion of sweetness. All in stony purity. Even though the winemaking is hands-off, there is an impression of extreme precision here, a perfect balance between the pure fruit, light, super-fine yet sufficient tannins and fresh acidity. Mouth-watering and moreish with a surprising persistence. Thirst quenching and elegant at the same time – not a simple vin de soif. Likely to be GV.
— Julia Harding MW, JancisRobinson.com
The producer
Natus Vini
Hamilton Reis planted his own vineyard by hand in 2008 in Vidigueira, deep in the Alentejo, and farms it fully organically. He ferments in the region's traditional amphorae, but without the skins, then ages the wine in large wooden casks.