2022 Cabecas Do Reguengo, Alentejo Portalegre Tinto, Respiro Clarete Price_36.99 and acidity to the finished

and acidity to the finished blend

and energetic

but I bet this would be absolutely banging with some proper buttermilk biscuits and country ham

but this is not the case with this special wine

30% Corvinone

2022 Cabecas Do Reguengo, Alentejo Portalegre Tinto, Respiro Clarete Price_36.99 and acidity to the finishedMost people think of Alentejo as big, sun baked red wine country ripe, warm, and generous. Portalegre, tucked into the Serra de So Mamede mountains at 600 meters, is the exception that reframes the whole conversation. Joo Afonso farms century old, pre phylloxera vines here field blends of over a dozen red and white indigenous varieties growing together the way they always have, before modern viticulture decided everything needed to be sorted and