Quinta de San Michel Lisboa Arinto Branco 2023

Name: Quinta de San Michel Lisboa Arinto Branco 2023
Brand: Source [SCE]
SKU: SF-1-SCE--082126-87
Price: 69.99 USD
Availability: InStock

$69⁹⁹

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Arinto is Portugal's great acid-bearing white grape, almost always bottled young and brisk; here it gets the full white-Burgundy treatment instead. The fruit comes from a 0.6-hectare parcel planted in 2015 at Janas, in the hills of Sintra just west of Lisbon, on a south-facing slope at 200 meters where calcareous clay sits over Jurassic limestone — cool ground, and close enough to the Atlantic to feel the wind off it. It is whole-cluster pressed, fermented on native yeasts, then held twelve months on its gross lees in a single French oak barrel of about four years of age, which builds texture and lets in a little air rather than adding oak flavor. Winemaker Alexandre Guedes works by taste, using the lab only to confirm what he already thinks. The estate is small and this bottling smaller still: a serious Portuguese white for anyone who thought they had already met Arinto.

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More about Quinta de San Michel

Leave the trendy wine bars of Lisbon – the hippest capital in Europe – and head west, and you will come across the vineyards of Quinta de San Michel. But you might think you have taken a wrong turn and ended up at the beach. In the tiny, historic appellation of Colares, the vines do not grow on tidy rows on slopes of clay or limestone. They crawl across deep sand dunes, battered by the salty winds of the Atlantic Ocean.

It is one of the most extreme terroirs in the world, and it produces one of Portugal's most singular white wines: Malvasia de Colares.

This is not the sweet, simple Malvasia you might know from other parts of the Mediterranean. Grown here, in the sand and sea spray, the grape transforms into something fierce, mineral, and profoundly savory. These are wines that don't just pair with seafood; they taste like the ocean itself.

Wine Details

Grape Variety

Arinto
Vintage

2023
Size

750ml
Farming Practice

Organic
Style

Minerally
Sweetness

Dry
Body

Light Bodied

Flatiron's Take

From the Importer

Tasting Notes & Food Pairings

Perfect Pairings

Grilled sardines or sea bass, salt cod with olive oil and potatoes, clams with garlic and coriander, roast chicken, or a young sheep's cheese.

Tasting Profile

Lemon, green apple and chamomile with a savory, chalky edge. Dry and medium-bodied, with high acidity and a broad, lees-built texture. Long, mineral finish with a faint saline lift.