Filipa Pato is probably the most important winemaker in Bairrada today, extending the impressive legacy of her father Luis Pato, who essentially founded Bairrada’s modern era with his slow maturing reds made from the Baga grape. Filipa has continued her father’s work with Bairrada’s local varieties – chiefly Baga, Bical, and Cercial – while transitioning the family’s farming to biodynamic principles and winemaking to a gentler, more natural style, all in search of what she calls “Authentic wine without makeup”. This mineral-rich white is an even blend of Bical and Cercial. Each variety on their own is known for their intense minerality, crisp acidity and pale green fruit flavors, so together, they produce a wine of very intense minerality, very crisp acidity, and aromas of lime and lemon, oregano and basil, before flavors arrive of lime and kiwi and green pear, with touches of basil and mint and granite and salt. Whether you fry the seafood into Pataniscas de Bacalhau or leave it uncooked in a cool ceviche, fish is on the menu.