Quinta das Bágeiras Super Reserva Bruto

Focused and persistent, with signature line, length and complexity. Ozone and a salty edge to its backbone of fresh grapefruit and fleshier baked quince smack of the region’s chalky terroir and maritime climate. Softening and savoury, the mousse brings yeasty, fresh-baked bread notes and a touch of nuttiness. Extremely appetising, with lovely balance.

70% Bical & 30% Maria Gomes

Made exclusively from hand-harvested estate fruit, this ‘traditional method’ espumante (which, like Champagne, undergoes the second fermentation in bottle) is a blend of 70% Bical from chalky clay and 30% Maria Gomes from sandy soils. The base wine was naturally fermented in stainless steel. The resulting sparkling wine was lees-aged for 24 months in bottle in wooden pupitres, with hand-riddling.  It was then disgorged by hand and, with zero dosage, no sugar was added to the liqueur d'expedition at final bottling.   Production averages 6,000 bottles.

Serve cold 7- 9°C

Oysters, or traditional dishes from Bairrada such as fried eels and roast suckling pig.