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Vinho Chinado's Chinado Skin Contact 2023 is a unique white wine from Lisboa. Made with organic grapes, the wine undergoes skin contact, resulting in aromas of tea leaves and lemongrass. With stone fruit and mineral undertones, balanced acidity, and a firm finish, it offers a distinctive experience. The winery focuses on manual harvesting and gentle winemaking techniques.
GRAPES Fernão Pires, Vital, Malvasia-Rei and others
TASTING NOTES Skin contact aromas of tea leaves and lemongrass. Stone fruit and mineral undertones with balanced acidity and a firm finish.
VINIFICATION Manual harvesting, gentle winemaking with skin contact, fermentation in stainless steel tanks, and bottling the following spring.
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In 2017, João Tereso, a sound engineer, ventured into winemaking to save his grandfather’s small plots of field-blend vines in Alcobaça, an hour north of Lisbon, from abandonment.
With the guidance of friends, he learned the craft of caring for vines. With a focus on low doses of sulphur but high doses of care & attention, the work required to produce low intervention wines is hefty, but João loves it.
By 2018, he had added two more abandoned vineyards to his flock. These 30-80 year old vines are situated on hillsides at about 150 meters (around 500 feet) elevation and have been farmed organically since 2021.
The name “Chinado” has a perfect double meaning.
‘Chinado’ is slang for ‘stabbed,’ as ‘chino’ is slang for knife. Some of João’s wines can catch us off guard and might give us a little nick, perhaps a little zip on our palates.
However, ‘chino’ also refers to a stone used to demarcate property boundaries, so a plot marked by stones is ‘chinado.’
Can’t get more old-school than that.
- NLC Wines
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