{"title":"Field Blend Branco","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"antonio-madeira-dao-vinhas-velhas-branco-2020","title":"Antonio Madeira Dão Vinhas Velhas Branco 2020","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\r\n\r\nAntónio Madeira is French of Portuguese descent, and his family roots are in the Serra da Estrela, Portugal’s highest mountain range located in the upper Dão region.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nAntónio believes the heart of Dão lies in this mountainous region, and that the fine, fresh, mineral wines you can produce here – which he refers to as the ‘Grands Crus of the Dão highlands’ – have great ageing potential. Madeira is a keen advocate of working the vineyards manually and organically, “to give life to the soils,” so the roots go deep (communicating with the mother rock) and the indigenous yeast population thrives. It is, he said, the way to express “\u003cem\u003eminerality and all the flavours of the landscape.\u003c\/em\u003e” He’s crafting phenomenal, terroir-focused wines and showing the potential of this often overlooked region.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nHis winemaking philosophy is simply to respect the grapes and the natural environment. Grapes are hand harvested and winemaking is gentle, aiming for minimal extraction. Using only 500l barrels whose oak has been very slowly toasted and stainless steel vats. Cultivating 30 different plots from 15 different vineyards totalling 6\/7 hectares of vines. This is Burgundy scale parcellation! Most vineyards are located in the foothills of the Serra d’Estrela, but some are actually higher in the mountains. All of his wines are co-fermented field blends, using indigenous yeast and very little sulphur. If there’s a through line in his wines it would be a touch of salinity with ample freshness, an earthy quality like the first moments after it rains. Antonio Madeira is passionate about the traditions and heritage of the Dao’s Serra Da Estrela sub-zone and has nearly single-handedly rescued and preserved some of its most historical vineyards from abandonment.\r\n\r\n\u003c\/div\u003e\r\n \r\n\r\n\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOrganic and biodynamic practices.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe white Vinhas Velhas 2020 comes from all the vineyards cultivated by Antonio Madeira, aged from 50 up to 130 years old, where we found field blends of around 20 autochthonous grape varieties, some of them forgotten varieties. 80% of the field blend is Siria, Fernão Pires, Bical, Encruzado, Malvasia Fina, Arinto and Cerceal. This wine expresses the character and elegance of the land that witnessed its birth and takes us on a journey through time to discover the aromas and flavours of Serra da Estrela foothills, just as they were back in the time of our forefathers. This wine is complex and refined with lovely citrus fruit core and some ripe apple and pear notes. It’s quite mineral and layered with depth and complexity and subtle notes of toast, spice and lanolin. The texture and saline minerality here are fantastic. Such a multidimensional wine with lovely depth and weight.","brand":"Artisan Wines","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44966812287045,"sku":"AM20VVB","price":83.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0727\/8644\/4357\/files\/38e49982-AM20VVB_Fixed.png?v=1777951266"},{"product_id":"antonio-madeira-dao-vinhas-velhas-branco-2022","title":"Antonio Madeira Dão Vinhas Velhas Branco 2022","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\r\n\r\nAntónio Madeira is French of Portuguese descent, and his family roots are in the Serra da Estrela, Portugal’s highest mountain range located in the upper Dão region.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nAntónio believes the heart of Dão lies in this mountainous region, and that the fine, fresh, mineral wines you can produce here – which he refers to as the ‘Grands Crus of the Dão highlands’ – have great ageing potential. Madeira is a keen advocate of working the vineyards manually and organically, “to give life to the soils,” so the roots go deep (communicating with the mother rock) and the indigenous yeast population thrives. It is, he said, the way to express “\u003cem\u003eminerality and all the flavours of the landscape.\u003c\/em\u003e” He’s crafting phenomenal, terroir-focused wines and showing the potential of this often overlooked region.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nHis winemaking philosophy is simply to respect the grapes and the natural environment. Grapes are hand harvested and winemaking is gentle, aiming for minimal extraction. Using only 500l barrels whose oak has been very slowly toasted and stainless steel vats. Cultivating 30 different plots from 15 different vineyards totalling 6\/7 hectares of vines. This is Burgundy scale parcellation! Most vineyards are located in the foothills of the Serra d’Estrela, but some are actually higher in the mountains. All of his wines are co-fermented field blends, using indigenous yeast and very little sulphur. If there’s a through line in his wines it would be a touch of salinity with ample freshness, an earthy quality like the first moments after it rains. Antonio Madeira is passionate about the traditions and heritage of the Dao’s Serra Da Estrela sub-zone and has nearly single-handedly rescued and preserved some of its most historical vineyards from abandonment.\r\n\r\n\u003c\/div\u003e\r\n \r\n\r\n\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOrganic and biodynamic practices.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe white Vinhas Velhas 2022 comes from all the vineyards cultivated by Antonio Madeira, aged from 50 up to 130 years old, where we found field blends of around 20 autochthonous grape varieties, some of them forgotten varieties. 80% of the field blend is Siria, Fernão Pires, Bical, Encruzado, Malvasia Fina, Arinto and Cerceal. This wine expresses the character and elegance of the land that witnessed its birth and takes us on a journey through time to discover the aromas and flavours of Serra da Estrela foothills, just as they were back in the time of our forefathers. This wine is complex and refined with lovely citrus fruit core and some ripe apple and pear notes. It’s quite mineral and layered with depth and complexity and subtle notes of toast, spice and lanolin. The texture and saline minerality here are fantastic. Such a multidimensional wine with lovely depth and weight.","brand":"Artisan Wines","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44966814089285,"sku":"AM22VVB","price":95.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0727\/8644\/4357\/files\/1dac973a-AM20VVB_Fixed.png?v=1777951270"},{"product_id":"arribas-wine-company-saroto-branco-2024","title":"Arribas Wine Company Saroto Branco 2024","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eMade by Frederico Machado and Ricardo Alves, who founded Arribas Wine Company in 2017 to rehabilitate old, abandoned vineyards around Bemposta in Trás-os-Montes, Portugal. Saroto Branco is a low-intervention, skin-contact white built from an old-vine field blend of indigenous varieties — Verdelho, Malvasia, Posto Branco and Bastardo Branco — sourced from 55-year-old plots in Urros, grown at 650–700 metres on soils of decomposed granite, quartz and clay.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe 2024 fruit was hand-picked on the 3rd and 4th of September and carried to the cellar in 20kg cases, then whole-bunch foot-trodden in traditional stone lagars. Fermentation ran entirely on wild yeast with no temperature control, alongside 4 days of skin maceration. After pressing, the juice was racked into used French oak, where it finished both alcoholic and malolactic fermentation and spent around 7–8 months ageing on lees. The wine was then moved to stainless steel for natural decantation before bottling — unfined, unfiltered, and left as a genuinely natural product, so some sedimentation may appear over time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe result is a gastronomic orange wine with real intensity and textured complexity, balanced by natural acidity throughout. 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Trás-os-Montes is one of Portugal's most overlooked wine regions — cold winters, high altitude, granite and schist soils, and a huge diversity of old, often-forgotten grape varieties (Tinta Gorda, Bastardo, Rufete, Verdelho and more). Arribas farms old, neglected vineyards traditionally and sustainably, with minimal-intervention winemaking, working to show the world what this remote, previously underestimated corner of Portugal can really do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHailing from old plots in Travanca, the grapes used to make Saroto Palhete 2024 were hand picked over the last week of September and carried to our cellar in 20kg cases. Whole bunch foot trodden and macerated for 3 days, grapes were pressed the juice racked to used Austrian oak barrels, where fermentation occurred naturally and without temperature control [wild fermentation]. Both alcoholic and malolactic fermentations were completed and after aging for 8 months in barrel, the wine was racked to a stainless steel tank where it decanted naturally before bottling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis wine is a natural product, unfined and unfiltered, and may present sedimentation over time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artisan Wines","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45014660186181,"sku":"AWC24SP","price":50.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0727\/8644\/4357\/files\/arribaspalhete.png?v=1778821883"},{"product_id":"beiorte-sr-roubado-branco-2023","title":"Beiorte Sr. Roubado Branco 2023","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCXW165029328 BCX0\"\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA fresh, expressive white from Portugal's historic Dão region, made by João Costa and his wife Bea in the small mountain village of Santa Ovaia. The Beiorte project was born during the pandemic, when João and Bea returned to his family's ancestral village and restored his great-grandfather's old cellar — built on a genuine passion for preserving old vineyards, traditional methods, and the true character of the Dão before it's lost.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis is a characterful, distinctly Portuguese white — herbaceous and gently savoury, kept in check by bright mineral acidity, and genuinely versatile at the table. It's a field blend including Fernão Pires, Bical, Malvasia Fina and Encruzado, from vineyards on granite soils in the cool, high-altitude Alva sub-region near the Serra do Açor mountains — conditions that give the wine its vibrant acidity, mineral edge and elegant structure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eMade naturally with no added sulphite, the fruit is hand-harvested in mid-September, given a 2-day skin maceration, then fermented in stainless steel on wild yeast with no temperature control. 13% alc, 750ml.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe name \"Beiorte\" comes from an old local dialect once spoken in the village, simply meaning \"wine,\" and every cork carries the phrase \"Beiorte Gido\" — \"good wine\" — a small nod to the region's culture and history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eFresh, textured and food-friendly, Sr. Roubado Branco 2023 shows bright citrus and orchard fruit layered with floral notes, subtle savoury depth, and a crisp mineral finish. It's proof, once again, of just how much potential Portugal has for genuinely exciting white wine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Artisan Wines","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45014670999621,"sku":"BV23SRDB","price":70.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0727\/8644\/4357\/files\/beiortesrroubadobranco2023.png?v=1778816730"},{"product_id":"arribas-wine-company-belfo-branco-2023","title":"Arribas Wine Company Belfo Branco 2023","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eArribas Wine Company is a small, boutique winemaking project founded in 2017 by friends Frederico Machado and Ricardo Alves, based in the village of Bemposta in Mogadouro, right in the far northeastern corner of Portugal — Trás-os-Montes, literally \"behind the mountains.\" Their vineyards sit on steep, granite-boulder-strewn hills overlooking the Douro river, just across from Spain's Arribes region — close enough, geographically and spiritually, that they named their project after it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eBoth founders cut their teeth elsewhere before coming home: Frederico trained in Enology at UTAD and did harvests with Dirk Niepoort in the Douro, Susana Esteban in Alentejo, and stints in Oregon and Victoria, Australia, before he and Ricardo decided the time was right to build something of their own. Trás-os-Montes is one of Portugal's most overlooked wine regions — cold winters, high altitude, granite and schist soils, and a huge diversity of old, often-forgotten grape varieties (Tinta Gorda, Bastardo, Rufete, Verdelho and more). Arribas farms old, neglected vineyards traditionally and sustainably, with minimal-intervention winemaking, working to show the world what this remote, previously underestimated corner of Portugal can really do. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBelfo is the word given to someone that speaks with their mouth full and this wine aims to express this metaphor in liquid form. A wine made from a very old parcel from Peredo de Bemposta, where the soil also presents limestone [aside from granite].\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGrapes were hand picked on September 7th into 20kg cases and transported to our cellar where they were whole bunch foot trodden. After a short 12 hour period of skin contact [maceration] grapes were pressed and the juice was racked to used French oak barrels where both alcoholic and malolactic fermentations finished. After 12 months of aging in barrel, the wine was racked to a stainless steel tank for an additional 6 months of aging before bottling in February. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e'Belfo' is a striking, fresh, savoury white wine that captures the spirit of Portugal's new and increasingly exciting winemaking scene. It comes from a single vineyard in Peredo de Bemposta, a site defined by granite soils and high altitude. The name itself means \"talking with your mouth full\" — a nod to both the wine's textural, mouth-filling character and the spontaneous, unguarded spirit behind its making. Beyond the bottle, the 'Belfo' project also supports local cultural associations, helping preserve the region's traditions and heritage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe wine is a field blend of white varieties including Verdelho, Malvasia, Posto Branco and Bastardo Branco, sourced from a single vineyard of vines aged between 70 and 90 years old. The vines grow on a rocky slope of decomposed granite laced with quartz and limestone, at 650–700 metres altitude in the historic Trás-os-Montes region. Grapes are hand-harvested in small crates, foot-trodden as whole bunches, and given a short 6–8 hour pre-fermentation skin maceration. Fermentation happens spontaneously in French oak barrels (15–20% new), followed by full malolactic fermentation and 10 months' ageing on fine lees.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eIn the glass, 'Belfo' shows an intense straw-yellow colour with orange highlights. The nose is bold and layered — ripe yellow fruit and dried apple sit alongside wild Mediterranean scrubland, iodine-like sea-salt notes and a subtle touch of butter. The palate is full-bodied and almost tactile in its richness, warm and generous, yet balanced by lively freshness and a long, savoury, mineral-driven finish. Short maceration keeps tannin light while intensity stays high — this is a wine built with real presence, ideal alongside big, flavour-forward seafood dishes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvery year we change the label and support a local association. For this 2023 vintage we partnered with Projeto Agua, founded by Dr. Antonio Guillen, that aims to study Duoro's water quality by analysing it's microfauna and microflora.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis wine is a natural product, unfined and unfiltered, and may present sedimentation over time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artisan Wines","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45015879352389,"sku":"AWC23BB","price":80.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0727\/8644\/4357\/files\/belfobranco.png?v=1778822164"}],"url":"https:\/\/artisanwine.com.au\/collections\/field-blend-branco.oembed","provider":"Artisan Wines","version":"1.0","type":"link"}