Ciclo Vinho Branco 2023

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Alvarinho, Arinto, Roupeiro, Rabo de Ovelha, and Perrum from Estremonz, Évora, Alentejo, Portugal; light plus bodied and dry with notes of tropical fruit, baked green apple, grapefruit, and flowers, layers of hazelnut, cream, saline, and stony minerals, with medium acidity, a clean supple texture, and a precise structured finish. Organic and loves air.

Field blend grapes are directly pressed then slowly decanted into stainless steel tanks for fermentation and maturation.

From the importer, Carnelia: 

Estremoz is a 13th-century walled city in the eastern Évora subregion of hot and dry Alentejo. Marble deposits fill the rolling hills surrounding the city. Rich red limestone soil over marble bedrock. Alentejo is south of the Tejo river which bisects the country and takes up much of Portugual's southern half.

Ciclo is the joint project of Hugo Campos, Joachim Roque, Ana Paulino, and Miguel Nunes. A group of friends who have worked in various facets of the wine industry for years, they used the quiet of 2020 quarantine to materilaize a longtime dream. They secured a 1.5 hectare vineyard in the Estremoz area, then another tiny granitic plot at slightly higher altitude, and began to make small quantities of low-intervention, experimental cuvées - looking for the essence of Alentejo in ancestral methods and native grapes. 

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