Country: Portugal

Region: Barraida

Grapes: Loureiro

Vintage: 2021

ABV: 12.5%

Bottle size: 75cl

Viticulture: Natural, Organic 

Winemaking: The must spends about two months in cement tanks macerating with its skins and ferments with its own yeasts. The resulting wine ages for eleven months on its fine lees

Vegan?: Yes

"Raiz" is a Portuguese white fresco and mineral wine that comes from pure Loureiro grapes. It has a straw yellow color. On the nose you can recognize salty notes, hints of white-fleshed fruit, such as green apple. On the palate it is fresco, juicy, with a lively salinity.

About the producer: Although Tiago Teles does not come from a family of winegrowers, a love for wine, the land and the sea runs through his veins. In 2012 he was finally able to rent a vineyard lying 15 km away from the Atlantic in Bairrada, where his father is from. He works to convey through his wines all the characteristics brought by the sea, the clay-calcareous soils in his plots and the expression of the local varieties that he cultivates with love and minimal intervention, following the principles of organic agriculture.