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Buçaco Introduction
Portugal's Lopez de Heredia. Fifteen years between discoveries.
ALLOCATION III
Mystic · Portugal · Iconic
Producer
The Almeida Hotel in Buçaco has been producing wines from their own vineyards since the nineteenth century, aging them in their cellars until release, often decades after the vintage. They are the Portuguese equivalent of Lopez de Heredia — wines that arrive at the table already fully formed, with an oxidative complexity and longevity that separates them from everything around them.
✨ Mystic· 🌅 Dawn
Mystic primary — wines aged for years in hotel cellars before release, carrying the weight of Portuguese wine history and the transformative quality of extended oxidative aging, occupy unambiguously Mystic territory. Dawn secondary — the craft tradition at Buçaco — rigorous viticulture, careful selection, extended cellar aging — reflects the precision and intentionality of Dawn energy.
Tasting note
One bottle each of 2022 Buçaco Branco, 2022 Buçaco Rosado, and 2018 Buçaco Tinto Reserva — from the wines of the legendary Almeida hotel that almost nobody outside a small circle of obsessives knows about. They become available every few years and sell immediately. This is one of those moments.
Details
Grape Baga · Touriga Nacional
Region Bairrada · Dão
Vintage Mixed
Country Portugal
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    Almeida Hotel Buçaco — Introduction Pack

    Almeida Hotel Buçaco — Introduction Pack

    $420.00 USD
    $420.00 USD
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    Includes one bottle each of

    2022 Bucaco Branco Reserva

    2022 Bucaco Rosado Reserva

    2018 Bucaco Tinto Reserva 

    It’s been almost fifteen years since I first tasted the sublime and sophisticated wines of Almeida/Bucaco hotel and whenever they become available (maybe every few years), I leap on the chance to load up.  They are coastal Portugal’s answer to the long-lived, spellbinding wines of Lopez de Heredia and especially with the White and Rose, will shatter your expectations. 

    Carefully made from the best vineyards, raised with traditional and highly particular methods, built to age, and generally reserved just for visitors to the luxury hotel, they are wines of joyous flavor and complexity.  I offer them here as a 3-pack sampler but I am certain that some of you who have bought from me before will want more than that. 

    The Bucaco Hotel was founded in 1917, with the highest of society as its clientele.  In order to have the very best to offer his guests, founder Alexandre de Almeida sought to make the greatest expression of Portuguese wine he could.  Utilizing grapes from what he viewed to be the country's two greatest regions, the Dão and Bairrada, the Bucaco wines are still produced today in the same methods and with the same spectacular results. This Branco Reservado is a blend of Encruzado, Maria Gomes and Bical, and is fabulously focused, driven and aromatic, with a backbone of textured acidity that'll allow it to age for many years. 

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