Joao Costa’s Beiorte is a tiny passion project focused on minimal intervention winemaking with maximal sentimental attachment to the local traditions of their native corner of the Dao region. The bottle label’s photo of a person in widow’s black against a backdrop of hand-worked stone masonry will stir nostalgia for anyone who’s spent time in rural Portugal. The wine presents as pure and fruit-forward with cherry and berry notes lightly framed by baking spice and melt-away tannins. This rare and hard-to-find bottling serves well both at the table or as a casual social wine. Saúde!!
Practicing organic. Primarily baga, blended with tinta pinheira, trincadeira, alfrocheiro, jaen, tinta roriz, touriga nacional and castelão, among others. 80-plus year-old vines. Santa Ovaia, Alva, Dao, Portugal.
Joao Costa’s Beiorte is a tiny passion project focused on minimal intervention winemaking with maximal sentimental attachment to the local traditions of their native corner of the Dao region. The bottle label’s photo of a person in widow’s black against a backdrop of hand-worked stone masonry will stir nostalgia for anyone who’s spent time in rural Portugal. The wine presents as pure and fruit-forward with cherry and berry notes lightly framed by baking spice and melt-away tannins. This rare and hard-to-find bottling serves well both at the table or as a casual social wine. Saúde!!
Practicing organic. Primarily baga, blended with tinta pinheira, trincadeira, alfrocheiro, jaen, tinta roriz, touriga nacional and castelão, among others. 80-plus year-old vines. Santa Ovaia, Alva, Dao, Portugal.
