Winemaker Notes
Brilliant cherry red color with a present viscosity. The taste is delicate and elegant, very juicy, attractive and it has a lingering and teasing aftertaste. A pure “vin de plaisir” which will accompany very nicely grilled fish and seafood and simple quality meat dishes with fresh and crunchy vegetables to accent the pureness of the wine. This Baga is also a good contender to creamy cheeses.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2018 Post-Quercus is a Baga that fermented and aged in uncoated amphorae for six months. It comes in at only 11.6% alcohol. As I noted at the beginning of the year, it's not meant to be sweet, fleshy or particularly ripe, but it is light and refreshing, with a delicious and juicy finish. I said earlier that I wanted to see this wine pull together over the summer. It seems like it has done exactly that. Pour it, give it 30 minutes and it's good to go. Aging is not really the point here, which tends to constrain my scoring, but it's worth leaning up this time around. We have no extended track record so far, but fresh Baga does have a habit of being hard to kill. Still, this seems to me to be pretty close to a peak moment.
This dark-skinned, Portugese variety creates powerful red wines with great color, structure and finesse and is specially prominent in the Bairrada and Dão regions. Somm Secret—Because of its ample acidity and striking color, Baga also makes a great rosé; much of it from the Bairrada ends up in this style.