Casa da Urra Reserva 2017 White Wine

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Antão Vaz is the soul of Alentejo white winemaking — a hardy, heat-resistant native variety that thrives where other grapes struggle, and rewards the winemaker willing to treat it with genuine ambition. At Casa da Urra, that ambition takes the form of a Reserva fermented entirely in French oak barrels — a decision that transforms Antão Vaz's naturally ripe, generous fruit into something with real structural complexity, depth and the persistent finish that defines a wine built to last. The 2017 vintage has now had nine years to find its balance, and what was originally projected to age for 5 to 7 years is today at its most complete and rewarding expression — a white wine of genuine cellar credentials from a 180-hectare estate in Alto Alentejo where the elevation of the São Mamede Hills gives every wine a freshness and precision the hotter lowlands simply cannot replicate.