Verdelho O Original

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Azores Wine Co.

Azores Wine Co.
Verdelho O Original

This is Verdelho o Original, aka Verdelho do Pico, indigenous to the Azores and Madeira. This is a different species than the Douro grape often called Verdelho, which is the Portuguese name for Godello. From volcanic basalt soils, and grapes 15 – 35 years old, this rarely seen grape was whole bunch pressed, and native fermented and aged in a mix of stainless steel barrels and used oak barrels, with 8 months lees contact.

Herbal and textural, with layers of white grapefruit, meadow grass, zesty lemon pith and peel, and fine lees, all rinsed with ample marine salinity. Unique and characterful.

“The 2024 Verdelho o Original, the varietal that started it all, is a little riper than the previous year, with a wine with 12.5% alcohol. It was a year of mildew and a very rainy winter, which caused very low yields in Verdelho. It has a bright golden color, good concentration but with balance, and it's clean and precise, crystalline and very tasty, with a clear salty twist in the finish, pretty much the signature of the year. The low-yielding years have a little more part in barrel but always used barrels that are quite neutral. They are releasing the 2024s six months later, to give them a little more time with lees before bottling. 5,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in July 2025. Drink 2025-2030.” - 92 points, Luis Gutiérrez, Wine Advocate, November 20, 2025

Azores Wine Co.
Verdelho O Original

Herbal and textural, with layers of white grapefruit, meadow grass, zesty lemon pith and peel, and fine lees, all rinsed with ample marine salinity. Unique and characterful.