We use cookies to make your experience better. To comply with the new e-Privacy directive, we need to ask for your consent to set the cookies. Learn more.
Luis Seabra Xisto Ilimitado Douro Tinto 2020
Luis Seabra Xisto Ilimitado Douro Tinto 2020
- Grape : Rufete, Touriga Franca, Malvasia Preta, Alicante Bouschet e Donzelinho Tinto.
- Country Portugal
- Region Douro
- ABV 13.5 %
- Producer Luis Seabra
- Case size 6/ 75cl
- Opening young and grippy, it has plum, wild blackberry, sarsaparilla, worn leather, and blueberry on a bed of wet slate. There’s a pleasing buzz that textures throughout to the lingering finish.
Luis Seabra may be a new name on the Portuguese wine scene, but he has already crafted some of the Douro’s most exciting wines. He worked as Dirk Niepoort’s right-hand man from 2004 until leaving to set up his label in 2012. He is starting small, producing just 5,000 bottles of each of these three wines.
Price | £120.61 |
---|---|
Country | Portugal |
Vintage | 2020 |
Bottles Per Case | 6 |
Bottle Size | 75 |
2 cases 10% off | No |
Winery | Since establishing his eponymous winery in 2012, Luis Seabra has become a superstar of the Portuguese wine scene – although, in his previous role as Dirk Niepoort’s right-hand man, he already had a hand in crafting some of the Douro’s most exciting wines. Production is minuscule, at just 5,000 bottles each of his top Crus a year. Winemaking is minimal intervention, and the style very much reflects the concentration of care lavished by this experienced winemaker on his tiny output: pure yet complex, more savoury than fruity, with a density of texture and long, almost salty finishes marking the wines out as something very special |