Filipa Pato - 'DNMC' - Baga - Bairrada, PT - 2023

Satellite's Hot Take

Looking for a wine that simply *slaps* at a very affordable and awesome price? These Dinamico wines by our Portuguese Heroine, Filipa Pato, are made without makeup and it shows. Natural beauty - maximal pleasure through minimal winemaking and just plain good farming.

Notes from the Winery/Importer

Looking for a wine that simply *slaps* at a very affordable and awesome price? These Dinamico wines by our Portuguese Heroine, Filipa Pato, are made without makeup and it shows. Natural beauty - maximal pleasure through minimal winemaking and just plain good farming. - This is Portugal!

Soil/Climate etc.:
Limestone midslopes from the Jurassic inferior with eastern orientation to the sun and a very intense Atlantic influence (we are only 15 km from the ocean). Mainly young vineyards from the massale selection taken from the old centenary vineyards of Baga.
Winemaker’s Notes:
Our “D.N.M.C.”philosophy is that Baga from different locations gives a more complex wine. Each location has its own expression of Baga. This for us is a real terroir driven wine and a nice example of Baga with a fruity character and soft tannins. Every plot is vinified apart and at the end we assemble all of them into one balanced unique “cuvée”, “Dinamica” – D.N.M.C.
Colour:
It shows a deeper, brillant cherry colour with a well present viscosity.
Taste:On the palate, fruity with a nice beautiful structure and an almost velvety texture with a very fresh and inviting aftertaste.
Bouquet:
Distinguished elegant fruitdriven nose with a typical strawberry and damson plum touch, often with nuances of liquorice, slightly spicy (black pepper, laurel, thyme, rosemary,...)
Gastronomic Accompaniments:
A real crowd pleaser, this wine combines excellent with a nice platter of charcuterie, a nice crunchy vegetable salad, grilled fish, grilled white meats and poultry and dry cheeses (Queijo Sao Jorge, Edam, Mimolette). Serve it at 14 - 16° and preferable aerated before serving. Baga tends to be slightly reductive when it has not been aged in oak...

Notes on the Producer

Filipa Pato and William Wouters is a magical wife and husband collaboration.
Our philosophy is simple: create authentic wines without make-up, they express the true nature of the vineyards from which they come.
We focus on indigenous grapes only. Baga, Bical, Arinto, Cercial and Maria Gomes create soulful wines from vineyard sites with soils, microclimats and aspect ideal for growing our exquisite wine grapes with biodymanic viticultural practices. In the winery we gently handle the grapes, minimal intervention and strict monitoring of the wine allow our grapes to express themselves fully.
Ultimately we create "terroir" wines by uniting knowledge, art and nature to produce "withoutmake-up", each wine with its own character.
Filipa Pato - winegrower in Bairrada. A graduate of the University of Coimbra as a Chemical engineer refined her Winemaker skills doing harvests in Bordeaux, France - Mendoza, Argentina and Margaret River, Australia and with her father Luis Pato, the Baga rebel.
William Wouters - chef/sommelier/restaurateur. William comes from a restaurateur family from Antwerp, Belgium. He is a sommelier champion, restaurateur and former head chef of the Belgian national Soccer team on the World cup in Brazil and the European cup in France.
Together Filipa & William share all their experiences: the love for food and wine, encounters with great wine growers, sommeliers and wine lovers from all over the world and the magical, inexhaustible culture of the World of wine. Today for Filipa & William, Ois do Bairro is the center of their wine universe. They will be happy to share all their passion of food and wine.
Drink local, eat local and ... think global 😉