Filipa Pato 2023 DNMC Branco

This "Dynamico" is a delicious, entry-level white wine from Filipa Pato of Portugal. She blends two of the local grapes - Arinto and Bical - to great effect here, a combination of her estate grapes subpplemented by neighbors who've gladly adopted her rigorous viticulural practices and standards, upon seeing her success in the global market. But still, there's never enough, so a word to the wise...

Gobble this up now. 

The Winery

As my old friends at WineWise, the importer of these wines, taught me long ago, "when it comes to building a portfolio, if you start with quality you attract more of the same" 

Fílipa Pato is a good example of this, a wine brought into our portfolio through introductions from multiple esteemed producers we've worked with before.

Filipa is the daughter of legendary Bairrada producer Luis Pato. She began by producing wines in the larger appellation of Beiras (and the Dão) and eventually purchased a small winery in Bairrada, which she has now significantly expanded. It is assumed she will eventually reunite with her father’s estate, but, in the meantime she has carved a big international name for herself by dint of her strikingly expressive and honest wines. 

Joined now by her husband, renowned Belgian sommelier Willem Wouters, they have enthusiastically embraced the rigors of bio-dynamism. They have been steadily buying up new parcels of land, all within a short drive of their home base, some planted to old vines, others being replanted with massal selections from select vineyards. The estate is up to 36 acres now, with a final goal of 53. Our only complaint? Never enough wine to meet demand.