2020 | Azores Wine Company | Vinha dos Utras

White Wine: 2020 | Azores Wine Company | Vinha dos Utras

This extraordinary white wine is expressive of the volcanic soils of Pico Island and displays notes of mandarin, iodine, graphite and smoke, with a saline, mineral core.

Order from the Largest & Most Trusted Premium Spirits Marketplace!

Featured in

• ROLLING STONE
• MEN’S JOURNAL
• US WEEKLY

NOTICE: Many other small liquor store sites may end up cancelling your order due to the high demand, unavailability or inaccurate inventory counts. We have partnerships consisting of a large network of licensed retailers from within the United States, Europe and across the world ensuring orders are fulfilled.

Producer: Azores Wine Company

Vintage: 2020

Size: 750ml

ABV: 12%

Varietal: Arinto

Country/Region: Portugal, Azores

This extraordinary white wine is expressive of the volcanic soils of Pico Island and displays notes of mandarin, iodine, graphite and smoke, with a saline, mineral core.

Producer Information

The Azores Wine Company was founded on April 3rd, 2014, by the partners Antnio Maanita, Filipe Rocha and Insula Vinus, Lda. Amongst the several projects they are involved in, we find wine production in Pico, the recovery of an endangered grape variety, as well as the promotion of the Azorean wine and gastronomy. In 2010, Antnio Maanita began, along with the S. Miguel Agricultural Development Services, the winemaking work of the Terrantez do Pico grape variety. Unique in the world, this nearly extinct caste reveals a surprising freshness, mineral quality and salinity. Afterwards, in 2013, there was a joint venue on Pico island, put together by Fita Preta wines and Insula Vinus, in order to produce a wine based on one more autochthon grape variety of the Region: Arinto dos Aores. This is how the Azores Wine Company was born and in 2014, the first year, it was already producing 10.000 bottles. The single varieties white wines Arinto dos Aores and Verdelho O Original of the Rare Grapes Collection represent more than half the production. However, the red and rose wines are also quite surprising. The first Azorean sparklings are also a part of this story. It was made in 2011 by Antnio Maanita in the Terrantez do Pico project (in S. Miguel island) and in 2014 the first Arinto dos Aores sparkling, already under Azores Wine Company signature. Lastly, there is the work already being developed in the fortified wines domain, in search of the famous Pico wines that travelled the world over 400 years ago.