Luis Pato Bairrada Vinho Tinto 2024 Reasonable Cellar "Le Passage" is Syrah from

"Le Passage" is Syrah from steep granite slopes around Malleval

Bone-dry Extra Brut with almost no dosage

and remarkably long

The last group underwent a secondary maturation in toasted virgin American oak casks before being added to this intricate and seductive blend

already complex character

Luis Pato Bairrada Vinho Tinto 2024 Reasonable Cellar "Le Passage" is Syrah fromBaga has a reputation as one of Portugal's most difficult grapes: thick skinned, high in acid, tannic enough to strip paint. Luis Pato has spent his career arguing that this is a farming problem, not a grape problem, and Bairrada is now unimaginable without him. This is his most easygoing statement of the case, a roughly even split of Baga and Touriga Nacional, fermented and raised in stainless steel with a deliberately gentle hand on the extraction.