Luis Seabra Xisto Ilimitado Branco 2021

Wine Type:
Style of Wine:	Light & Crisp
Country of Origin:	Portugal
Wine Region:	Douro
Grape Varietal:	Rabigato, Codega, and Gouveio
Bottle Format:	750mL
Case Size:	12 bottles
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Tasting Notes

From mica, schist, and feldspar soils (what winemaker Luis Seabra deems the best for whites), this is a field blend of Rabigato, Códega, Gouveio, Vioshino and more, with vines 30-60 years old, and at 400-500m in altitude. Ilimitado is akin to Seabra's "village wine". After crushing and destemming, the grapes are pressed together, native fermented, and aged in used French oak barrels for 7 months on lees, with no MLF or battonage. Intense with schistous grip, wet stones, flax, pear, quince, herbal melon, and tangerine, this mineral-driven white expands over an evening in your glass. Delicious now, and will certainly reward with cellaring.

Critical Praise

"If you have not yet met Luis Seabra through his sinfully salty and devilishly dry Douro white wines than ye are who have not yet lived. Smells like a bottle of bath salts, deliciously herbal, pin-pricking fastidious and quick to spark a pool of water with energy and bright light. Great to drink too. Every night out in Porto should initiate with a glass of Illimitado, so why not where you live too? Drink 2020-2025. Tasted May 2020." - 92 points Michael Godel