Luis Seabra Indie Xisto Douro Tinto 2020
$90.00 inc. GST
AROMA: Black fruit, violets, and wet stone
PALATE: Dark berries, sour cherry, gravelly, mineral-driven texture, strong tannins, and a long, fresh finish. The wine is powerful yet balanced, with a focus on terroir from its blue schist (Xisto) vineyard and is made with indigenous grapes and minimal intervention.
FOOD MATCH: The wine has savory notes, high tannins, and a minerality is ideal for cutting through the richness of red meat and stews.
Grape Variety: 30% Tinta Roriz, 30% Touriga Franca, 10% Tinta Amarela, 5% Tinta Barroca, 5% Rufete, 5% Touriga Brasileira, 5% Donzelinho Tinto, 5% Malvasia Preta, 5% Touriga Femea
Drinking window: 2021-2035
Alc. 13,50%
52 in stock
Description
After a decade as winemaker at Niepoort, where he was responsible for some of the best known and highest rated wines to come out of the famed Douro and Porto producer, Luis Seabra decided that he no longer wanted to make wines to someone else’s tastes and specifications. Thus, he began his eponymous winery, and set about shattering preconceptions of what Douro wines represent. The Xisto Cru Branco is one of a series of wines that Luis makes that exemplify and express the intensely terroir-driven style in which he operates. He is a particularly gifted winemaker, one who sees wine as a medium through which a piece of land can speak. “Cru” translates as “raw” in Portuguese, and the transmission of terroir here is unadulterated and singular. This series of wines is one in which he removes every variable but that of the land itself, and the stark expression of the soil that results is extraordinary. He works exclusively with spontaneous fermentation, native yeasts, and large format tight-grained oak for all the wines in this series.
Indie Xisto Douro Tinto is a pure expression of terroir, crafted from a single, sustainably farmed vineyard in Alijó, Douro. Planted over 70 years ago in an unlikely site for red wine, the vines thrive in clay loam soil with a predominance of blue slate at 580 meters elevation. Vinified with indigenous yeasts, Luis Seabra ensures that the soil remains the defining element of the wine’s character. This vineyard showcases the unique balance of altitude, soil, and tradition.
Additional Information
| brand | Luis Seabra |
|---|---|
| size | 750ml |
| vintage | 2020 |
| Organic/Sustainable | Practices |
Reviews/Ratings/Awards
Winefront
Luis Seabra Indie Xisto Douro Tinto 2020 – 96 / 100 Points
I love these wines. Smells of lavender, young port, aniseed, raisin and blackcurrants. The palate is really gravelly, super-charged with cool and refreshing minerality, dried herbs, blackberries and sour black cherry. Long in the palate, stains the palate in the nicest way, super savoury, very tannic with beautiful spread of that. Rock-licking stuff, and so fresh in that regard. Wonderful wine here. You open this and you are having a time. Superb drinking,
– Mike Bennie
The real Review
Luis Seabra Indie Xisto Douro Tinto 2020 – 96 / 100 Points
Deep red-purple colour, good for its age, the bouquet red and darker fruits plus an earthy note with some nuttiness from oak and a trace of sweatiness overlying it all. The palate is full-bodied, concentrated and strong on tannins which are powdery, mouth-coating and drying on the extended finish. A solid and evidently age worthy red wine. Drink 2024–2035
– Huon Hooke
