Adega Viuva Gomes, Castelao 'Pirata da Viuva', 2020
A gluggable, low-alcohol red from one of the last surviving cellars of coastal Colares, this is the kind of quiet find that rewards the curious. Adega Viuva Gomes traces to 1808, named for the widow Gomes who kept it going; today father and son Jose and Diogo Baeta farm on clay soils in the Atlantic-cooled zone near Sintra, working nearly extinct native grapes. The Pirata is their 100% Castelao bottled under the broader Lisboa designation, fermented spontaneously and raised in stainless steel. At barely 10.5% alcohol it drinks fresh and light on its feet, more Atlantic than sun-baked. Serve it with a slight chill and you have a genuinely food-friendly red that overdelivers.
Adega Viuva Gomes, Castelao 'Pirata da Viuva', 2020
A gluggable, low-alcohol red from one of the last surviving cellars of coastal Colares, this is the kind of quiet find that rewards the curious. Adega Viuva Gomes traces to 1808, named for the widow Gomes who kept it going; today father and son Jose and Diogo Baeta farm on clay soils in the Atlantic-cooled zone near Sintra, working nearly extinct native grapes. The Pirata is their 100% Castelao bottled under the broader Lisboa designation, fermented spontaneously and raised in stainless steel. At barely 10.5% alcohol it drinks fresh and light on its feet, more Atlantic than sun-baked. Serve it with a slight chill and you have a genuinely food-friendly red that overdelivers.
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A gluggable, low-alcohol red from one of the last surviving cellars of coastal Colares, this is the kind of quiet find that rewards the curious. Adega Viuva Gomes traces to 1808, named for the widow Gomes who kept it going; today father and son Jose and Diogo Baeta farm on clay soils in the Atlantic-cooled zone near Sintra, working nearly extinct native grapes. The Pirata is their 100% Castelao bottled under the broader Lisboa designation, fermented spontaneously and raised in stainless steel. At barely 10.5% alcohol it drinks fresh and light on its feet, more Atlantic than sun-baked. Serve it with a slight chill and you have a genuinely food-friendly red that overdelivers.