LOUca Tinto 2021

Louca Tinto 2021 was born of a challenge between Luís Louro and Inês Capão. Used to working together, they challenged each other to create a signature wine, made individually, without the other's input. The result proves that there are different ways to approach a region as diverse as the Alentejo. Elegant on the nose; fresh on the palate, with firm yet fine tannins, light, with a long, persistent finish. Great ageing potential. A different kind of red, well worth trying!

The Wine Advocate
RP 95

Reviewed by: Luis Gutiérrez

The 2021 LOUca Tinto is the fourth edition of this experimental wine and is actually a blend of wines from the 2020 and 2021 vintages, 50% Trincadeira and 50% Castelão from two vineyards: one planted in 2018 and regrafted in 2020, the other planted in 1993 with both varieties. The grapes were destemmed and foot-trodden, pressed after 24 hours, and finished fermenting off the skins in used French oak barrels, where the wine matured for a year.

This is the palest of them all and my favourite of the reds, with a more delicate, elegant, floral and perfumed profile. It has 12.8% alcohol, a pH of 3.43, a light to medium body, very fine tannins and clean, long, savoury flavours. 1,100 bottles produced. It was bottled in August 2023.

Luís Louro is the son of Miguel Louro of Quinta do Mouro. He founded Adega Monte Branco in Estremoz in 2004, after two years buying land, planting and acquiring vineyards. He uses no herbicides and pays ever more attention to native varieties. He farms a total of 28 hectares in five plots, all in Estremoz, the oldest planted in 1993.