2019 Vinhos Fitapreta -- “Fita da Fitapreta” Tinto -- Alentejo, Portugal fig and caraway

fig and caraway

a pink-skinned mutation of Sauvignon Blanc that is less aromatic

The Hendry family has been farming and growing grapes at their ranch in the Oak Knoll district since 1939

as well as floral notes from whole-cluster inclusion

and it is thought to be indigenous to Puglia

2019 Vinhos Fitapreta -- “Fita da Fitapreta” Tinto -- Alentejo, Portugal fig and carawayAlentejo is Portugals preeminent wine region in terms of domestic consumption and produces the bulk of wine drunk in the domestic market of Portugal as well as producing half of the worlds corks. Winemaker Antonio Maanita worked all over the world as a young man: at dArenberg in Australia, Chteau Lynch Bages in Bordeaux, Rudd Estate in Napa, among others, before returning to his home country of Portugal. His mother was from Alentejo and his father