On this island, vines have been planted for over 500 years in the cracks of volcanic rock, just a few meters from the sea. But it is even earlier, in 1465, the arrival of the Utras, misrepresentation of the name of Joss Hurtere, a Flemish who was Donatory Captain of Pico and Fayal, decisive for the development of wine and vines on these islands. We were given the testimony of one of these vineyards still in the descendants of the Utras, a small plot in Criação Velha that leans against the sea, in “1os Jeirões”, in a place where you get the greatest exposure to the sun and concentration.
Citrus-straw yellow color, aroma iodine, salt, linden. In the mouth, a dense concentrated attack, acidity cuts in the middle and remains until the end of the tasting, salt, salt, salt and iodine, it is a “slap” of sea.
A wine born at sea, ready to pair with shellfish, seafood (mullet, sea roe, sea urchins) but with a density and concentration to work with white meats with burnt fat, such as a good suckling pig or even a pork belly.