Refined aroma of lime, pineapple, pear, wet stone, light vanilla, and salt. Dry, high acidity, medium alcohol, medium body, medium intensity, lime, peach, a hint of pineapple, a touch of vanilla in the long finish.
2022 was also an archetypal year for the Buçaco style. The wines are aromatic, full-bodied, intense, complex, and possess a delicate freshness. They display striking minerality and finely chiseled acidity. If you really wish, you can one day pass this cellaring wine on to your children. Or open it in 5 years, when it is at its best. Or perhaps even now? Everything is possible, nothing is mandatory. This is how truly great wine is made, which now reveals its fruity side with remarkable openness. One of the most cellar-worthy dry white wines of the Iberian Peninsula.
Alexandre de Almeida, founder of the oldest hotel chain in Portugal with the same name, began producing Buçaco Wines in 1917 when he realized what the Hotel Winery concept meant after many visits to European hotels, including those on the French “Côte D’Azure”. This gave him the idea to open his own winery at the Buçaco Palace, starting to produce varieties that would come to be known as the glorious “Buçaco wines”. In the early 20th century, one of the most interesting pages on Portuguese wine was created, the wine that was to become a much-envied icon, but which was always intentionally kept out of the limelight. Its creator, Alexandre de Almeida, adopted the concept of linking luxury hotels to a winery with their own wine. If we look back, ever since the first harvests we realized the importance of this icon that was served to kings, queens and heads of state, as proven by menus, proudly kept at the Hotel Palace Buçaco. Buçaco wines were just that: objects of culture limited to very restricted circles, the elite. Their fantastic and noble labels still bear the symbol of their nobility to this day and age.
Refined aroma of lime, pineapple, pear, wet stone, light vanilla, and salt. Dry, high acidity, medium alcohol, medium body, medium intensity, lime, peach, a hint of pineapple, a touch of vanilla in the long finish.
2022 was also an archetypal year for the Buçaco style. The wines are aromatic, full-bodied, intense, complex, and possess a delicate freshness. They display striking minerality and finely chiseled acidity. If you really wish, you can one day pass this cellaring wine on to your children. Or open it in 5 years, when it is at its best. Or perhaps even now? Everything is possible, nothing is mandatory. This is how truly great wine is made, which now reveals its fruity side with remarkable openness. One of the most cellar-worthy dry white wines of the Iberian Peninsula.
Alexandre de Almeida, founder of the oldest hotel chain in Portugal with the same name, began producing Buçaco Wines in 1917 when he realized what the Hotel Winery concept meant after many visits to European hotels, including those on the French “Côte D’Azure”. This gave him the idea to open his own winery at the Buçaco Palace, starting to produce varieties that would come to be known as the glorious “Buçaco wines”. In the early 20th century, one of the most interesting pages on Portuguese wine was created, the wine that was to become a much-envied icon, but which was always intentionally kept out of the limelight. Its creator, Alexandre de Almeida, adopted the concept of linking luxury hotels to a winery with their own wine. If we look back, ever since the first harvests we realized the importance of this icon that was served to kings, queens and heads of state, as proven by menus, proudly kept at the Hotel Palace Buçaco. Buçaco wines were just that: objects of culture limited to very restricted circles, the elite. Their fantastic and noble labels still bear the symbol of their nobility to this day and age.
Food-Pairing
Grapes: Bical, Maria Gomes, Encruzado
Since the beginning, in 1917, this wine was designed to be a traditional blend of two regions, Dão and Bairrada. The grapes are fermented separately. The ageing takes up to 12 months in 50% new 300L french barrels and 50% used barrels (2nd year). The wine is usually released 4 years after bottling.
While various regions in Portugal struggled with the heat of 2022, the vintage in Bairrada was very good, and in Dão even excellent. This is an advantage when producing a blend from multiple regions. Certainly unusual, but always the hallmark of Bussaco's Unicorns. The Bical and Maria Gomez grapes ripened perfectly on the calcareous soils of Bairrada, with its Atlantic Ocean-influenced climate, and the same applies to the Encruzado from the high-altitude Dão with its bare granite soils. The interplay between warmth and a temperate climate results in a magnificent blend. A wine that everyone should taste (at least) once in their lifetime.
Alcoholcontent
13,5%
Store & Serve
Storage Lying down at a temperature of 12°C. Serve at a temperature of 11°C
