Here’s a wine that tiptoes across the palate thanks to its relatively light alcohol content of 12.5% abv and the delicate character of its 3 grape varieties: Gouveio, Rabigato, and Viosinho. Flavours and aromas of grapefruit, lime peel and mandarin are stimulated by a mouth-watering acidity, like a squeeze of lemon juice. Sourced from vines on hardscrabble schist slopes at 500 metres above sea level, where it is significantly cooler than lower in the valley, which shows itself in the freshness and lightness of touch. Lucia and I tasted it together and, being a gentleman, I gestured for her to use the spittoon first. She gave me a guilty smile, which confessed that she had swallowed it. I smiled back. And all the wine spilled down my chin. No, of course it didn’t! I had swallowed it too. 12.5% alc. Drink now-2027.