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Sidonio de Sousa - Bairrada Baga Reserva Red 2018 (750ml)
 

Price: $25.99

Producer Sidonio de Sousa
Country Portugal
Region Bairrada
Varietal BAGA
Vintage 2018
Size 750ml

Rated 94/100 John Gilman, View from the Cellar
Aged in 100-year old Portuguese oak barrels,
GRAPE:  100% Baga
The Reserva Tinto bottling from Sidónio De Sousa is handled just like the Colheita for its fermentation, with partial destemming of the bunches and fermentation with native yeasts, followed by its first three months of élevage in a combination of cement vats and stainless steel tanks. However, after three months, the two bottlings’ paths diverge, as the Reserva Tinto is then racked into ancient (one hundred years of age!), four thousand liter foudres, made from Portuguese oak. The Reserva is given at least another year and a half of aging in foudres to soften up those Baga tannins and then bottled. The 2018 Reserva Tinto comes in at 13.5 percent alcohol and delivers a bouquet of dark berries, cassis, espresso, grilled meats, dark soil tones, a whisper of sweet botanicals and plenty of upper register smokiness. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, focused, complex and shows off superb depth of fruit at the core, with fine soil signature and grip, ripe, well-integrated tannins and excellent length on the complex, well balanced and very classy finish. The 2018 version is not quite as polished at this stage of its development as the 2017 was a year ago and I would be inclined to still give the 2018 some bottle aging before having at it in earnest, but it is a truly superb bottle in the making. 2032-2065.
Rated 94/100 John Gilman, View from the Cellar

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