Tez 2020

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Fermented with chestnut flowers, this lively orange wine is a low intervention blend of Avesso and Arinto. It has great mineral acidity combined with some tannins. A complex combination of lemon zest, artichoke and lively stone fruit notes. A perfect high-toned wine you can dance with all night long!

 

Featured in February 2021 Wine Club!


ABV:

  • 12%

Vintage:

  • 2020

Type:

  • Orange

More On Tez 2020

Pairings

Hard Cheeses, Summer Salad, Seafood

Varietal

Avesso, Arinto

Funky Scale

Funky

Region

Vinho Verde, Portugal

bojo do luar vineyard

The Producer

About Bojo do Luar

The Bojo do Luar project came to life during a trip Savio made to the Vinho Verde region. Here he met Fernando Paiva, a biodynamic producer who has been experimenting with adding ground chestnut flowers to the grapes and must before fermentation began. Meanwhile he’s halted using SO2 altogether since 2017. Fernando is a regional reference for non-interventionist winemaking. He was the first Portuguese producer to acquire the DEMETER certification and through him Savio met another producer, Antonio Sousa, who practiced biodynamic viticulture, but still used traditional and conventional winemaking methods in the cellar. Savio was undeterred and saw this as an opportunity: to use the traditional autochthonous varietals of Northern Portugal, and apply his knowledge and experience of many decades working with French producers, mainly in Burgundy and Loire. With Antonio’s winemaking experience and openness to experiment using a non-intervention approach in the cellar, the Bojo do Luar wines started to take shape. The region has a mostly cool temperate climate throughout Spring, then very warm days, and cool nights until the harvest in September. Five red grape varietals and three whites were chosen for their natural high levels of tartaric acids and low PH. -Savio Soares Selections.