(2012) Organic and wild-yeast fermented, this has that slightly wild, sour cherry and Indian inky density and dryness of the Afros Vinhão I selected last year, with minerals and keen raspberry fruit too. Wow! An almost Champagne-like vivacity on the palate - not sparkling, but so much acidity and keen, lean, mouth-watering citrus and racy acidity. Deliciously different.

(2011) Served cold, this deep crimson, biodynamic wine has beautiful aromatics with black cherries, red liquorice and a certain caraway seed spice. Beautifully focused flavours, the black fruit has shimmering gloss and refinement on the palate, with a granite-like backbone of structure. It finishes with creaminess and that beautiful kirsch-like freshness.

(2010) Fermented in the lagar with foot-treading. Then to tanks with lees ageing, no malolactic, and allowed to ferment out very slowly, perhaps through into the new year. Served cold, this deep crimson/black wine has beautiful aromatics with black cherries, red liquorice and a certain caraway seed spice. Lovely, tight, beautifully focused flavours. The tight black fruit has beautiful gloss and refinement on the palate too, with fantastic, savoury depth, a little meatiness and that firm, granite-like backbone of structure, but the finish very soft, a certain creaminess through the lees ageing and that beautiful kirsch-like freshness.