Every now and then a you find a new wine that totally changes your perceptions for a given region, grape or style of wine. This wine does just that. A skin contact Avesso with lots of grip in the mouth with excellent freshness and flavours of orange peel and persimmon with a lovely stalky, green edge. Vinho Verde with a new hat on. A must-try wine and one for the adventurous.

Alexander Gomes is a lucky man. Proud owner of A&D Wines, which is situated in the impossibly beautiful Quinta de Santa Teresa, he gets to wake up every day, look out over a verdant Portuguese valley, and get to work producing some of the most delicious wines to come out of the country in recent years. No wonder he’s so keen to show off his winery as well as his produce, and has become a must-see operation on the booming Portuguese wine tours which have taken off over the past decade! A&D Wines produces a handful of different styles made from a bunch of different native Portuguese varietals, but it’s his Vinho Verde which have captured the public imagination most successfully. Made from the expressive and zesty Alvarinho grapes which grow beneath the Iberian sunshine, Gomes’ green wine captures the brightness, acidity, and amazing food-friendliness of this quintessentially Portuguese slightly sparkling wine. A lucky, lucky man indeed.