A Quiet Conversation With The Dead — And The Greatest Rioja I've Tasted In Years
minimal winemaking chicanery)
Earth-led and quietly complex
it glides rather than presses
Filipa Pato DNMC Branco (Filipa Pato Baga Bairrada Dinamica) Lambrusco A Quiet Conversation With TheEnergetic and unapologetically Baga, this opens with sour cherry, pomegranate, and dried cranberry, layered with bay leaf, crushed herbs, and a distinctly ferrous, limestone driven edge. The palate is taut and lively, built around brisk acidity and fine, slightly angular tannins that give the wine its nervous, food driven shape. Red fruit stays bright and restrained, with savory, earthy noteswet stone, dried leavesemerging through the mid palate.