Bom Malandro Branco 2024

You can’t just be a bom malandro. It takes time, dedication, and a good eye for an opportunity. Bom Malandro leads by example. Our favourite mischievous squirrel can spot the juiciest grapes from a kilometre away and grab them before anyone else has seen them. He knows how to gather and rouse his gang, ready to cause chaos, and how to reward them properly – with a bottle (or three) of his favourite Douro DOC white. Bom Malandro knows how to behave to get what he wants – especially at the dinner table – and he knows the importance of leading by example. Are you in?

The Wine: Bom Malandro White is produced from grapes sourced from high altitude vineyards (above 500m) in strategic locations along the Douro Demarcated Region. Here, cooler temperatures provide ideal conditions to grow white varieties and help preserve the grapes’ natural acidity and aromatic components.

Grape Varieties: Viosinho, Gouveio, Rabigato, Arinto, Moscatel Galego Branco.

Tasting Notes: A panoply of aromas including pineapple and mango with a hint of yellow plum and some vanilla in the background. Brightly fresh on the palate with crisp, focused flavours of yellow plum and apricot, underpinned by luminous acidity that provides great elegance and balance.

Winemaking: After de-stemming and a light crushing, some contact between the must and the skins is encouraged to extract the desired aromatic compounds. After clarification, the must is fermented in stainless steel vats, temperature controlled at 15-17°C. Winemaking in this reductive medium is prolonged through the following ageing process, carried out with minimal contact with oxygen, to ensure maximum preservation of the primary aromas that are key in creating this wine profile.

Ageing and Bottling: Stainless steel vats until bottling.

Winemakers: Charles Symington, Pedro Correia and Hugo Almeida.