Conceito - Contraste Branco, Douro, Portugal (2018)

 TASTING NOTES

A fresh wine with stony notes, this is full of green fruit with floral and herbaceous aromatics and tense acidity on the palate.  It’s a rich and concentrated white, yet with much precision in its citric fruit and minerality.

A blend of traditional white grapes, like Rabigato, Códega, Códega do Larinho and Arinto, from mostly 20-year-old vines at 600 meters, all co-fermented (wild ferment) in a 70/30 mixture of stainless steel and new French oak for eight months.  

Rita Ferreira Marques is the head winemaker, general manager, sales manager, wine “ideologist”, agricultural manager and strategist, export director & body and soul of the company. 

Disappointed with Mechanical Engineering, Rita switched and graduated in Oenology in Vila Real and Bordeaux before working in Bordeaux, California, South Africa and New Zealand.