On this island, vines have been planted in cracks in the volcanic rock for over 500 years, just a few meters from the sea. But it is even earlier, in 1465, the arrival of the Utras, distorting the name of Joss Hurtere, a Flemish man who was Captain Donatário of Pico and Fayal, decisive for the development of wine and vineyards 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 faces the sea, in the “1os Jeirãos”, in a place where the greatest sun exposure and concentration is achieved.
Citrus-straw yellow color, aroma of iodine, salt, linden. In the mouth, dense concentrated attack, acidity cuts in the middle and remains until the end of the taste, salt, salt, salt and iodine, it is a “slap” of the sea.
A wine born at sea, ready to pair with seafood, shellfish (red mullet, sea roe, sea urchins) but with a density and concentration to work with white meats with burnt fat, like a good suckling pig or even pork belly .