The Wine & Soul Guru Branco is a white wine produced from a 50-year-old field blend of the indigenous white grape varieties, including: Vosinho, Rabigato, Codega do Larinho, and Gouveio. Fermented and aged in new French oak for five months, this wine features great complexity, minerality, and freshness. An elegant wine exhibiting grapefruit and mineral aromas and flavours warmed by oak contact. Refreshing, with a fine balance and long finish.
Wine & Soul is located in the heart of the Douro Valley, Portugal’s best-known wine region, and spans several picturesque vineyards. The winery was founded nearly 10 years ago by Jorge Serôdio Borges and his wife Sandra...
Long famous as the source of port wine, the Douro is now also renowned for its fine, rich unfortified wines, both red and white. The Douro is one of the wildest, most mountainous and rugged wine regions of Portugal, cut through in deep twists...
It is estimated that there are more than 10,000 grape varieties in present commercial production, yet this probably includes the same grapes under other names. With the increase of DNA fingerprinting it is thought that the real number might come down closer to 5,000.
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