Luis Seabra Granito Cru Alvarinho 2023 SPDESSERT Roughly half the blend here

Roughly half the blend here is reserve wine

earthy and fruity rye

and it earns the slot

Twenty-five years of careful aging has given this Pessac-Léognan its full voice: medium ruby with ripe dark-berry aromatics that open to leafy

on the hillside above the Côte de Nuits

Luis Seabra Granito Cru Alvarinho 2023 SPDESSERT Roughly half the blend here"Cru" means raw in Portugueseand this wine delivers exactly that: an unadulterated expression of Vinho Verde's granitic terroir. From vines planted in 1989 on the granite soils of Paderne, Melgao, at 50 150 meters elevation, the Alvarinho was native fermented and aged 12 months on lees in large oak vats with no added sulfur. Strikingly mineral, with the stark singularity of soil driven wine that transcends typical Vinho Verde lightness into something