Tubarão Vinhos Fera Tinto 2024

Tubarão's red is a Minho classic — the traditional tinto minhoto that the region has always drunk young, cold and with food. Vinhão (80%) leads, with Loureiro in support, from the sandy Atlantic soils around Póvoa de Varzim.

Made with minimal intervention: spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts, unfiltered, very low sulphites. Malolactic fermentation is completed in bottle, which leaves the faint natural fizz that gives the wine its versatile, fresh and fun character.

The profile is the classic Minho red — deep in colour, bright and juicy, with vivid acidity and a light frame. The big change for this release is the label: illustrator Sofia Ayuso was asked for a new face for the wine, and the stylised lettering was so well liked it stands alone.

Serve it as the Minhotos do: properly chilled, alongside your whites, with grilled sardines, chouriço, or anything from the barbecue.

Tubarão, founded in Póvoa de Varzim by Márcio Lopes and Ricardo Garrido, is a project built on low-intervention winemaking and on supporting the growers who still farm the region's endangered campos de masseira — rectangular pits dug into the coastal dunes in the 18th century by Benedictine monks, with vines planted on the sand walls to shelter a warm, fertile centre nourished by fresh groundwater and seaweed.

Region: Vinho Verde DOC (Minho), Portugal
Grape Varieties: Vinhão (80%), Loureiro
Alcohol: 12%
Sulphites: Low — average 4 mg/L
Vegan friendly: Yes (uncertified)
Serving Temperature: 8–10°C