2022 Filipa Pato 'Tola' Bical, Bairrada, Portugal Grgich Hills • Sourced from de Brye

• Sourced from de Brye

gravel-rich clay and limestone on Lias marl

Vine Age: Planted in the mid 1970s

As we came to know each site’s capabilities for skin maceration

2022 Filipa Pato 'Tola' Bical, Bairrada, Portugal Grgich Hills • Sourced from de Brye100% Bical Sourced from Filipa and Williams best white wine site, a gently sloping, full south exposure parcel with 60 year old vines in deep Jurassic limestone Direct pressed into traditional pipas (large neutral barrels) and fermented with indigenous yeast 12 months in oak (no btonnage) and 4 additional months in tank before bottling unfined and unfiltered 1500 bottles produced Tola was the legendary prior owner, a lady of extremely eccentric