About The Wine

Xis was born in 2019 from the insane search for the best white vineyards of Adorigo / Barcos in Tabuaço region – Douro Valley. A very old vineyard, between 500 and 550m high, facing north, with Malvasia Fina as the major variety in the field blend, along with Gouveio, Rabigato, Dona Branca and Viosinho. 2019 was considered a dry year in the valley, with rain showers when the plant most needed them, was a perfect agricultural year, with medium high productions and very healthy grapes, picked on the 4th of September and pressed on the same day in a vertical press, in an oxidative way, directly to used barrels. Fermentation was spontaneous, on the heavy lees, and malolactic happened in a 1/3rd of the barrels, naturally. The wine aged on the heavy lees for a year and then went to stainless steel over winter, where it decants and stabilizes naturally. The wine was bottled by gravity with no filtration or fining, whatsoever. Bottled on the 15th of May—620 bottles.