The 2024 harvest was not just another year of picking grapes. It was the moment everything began.
The First Cut
September arrived with days still warm and nights growing cooler — the ideal thermal range we seek in altitude Alvarinho. In Melgaço, the hillside vineyards woke early that year. Ripening was slow, patient, the way we like it: without rushing, allowing acidity and aromas to develop at their own pace.
Manuel arrived from Lisbon with the eyes of someone who grew up among vines but was now looking at them differently — no longer just as a son, but as a winemaker with his own project.
Two Terroirs, One Vision
In Requião, the setting was different. The maritime Alvarinho had a rounder character, influenced by the proximity of the Atlantic and the granitic soils with higher clay content. There, Luís already knew each vine intimately — thirty years of harvests leave their mark.
The idea was always this: to show that Alvarinho is not one thing. It is many. And that between the sea and the mountain lies an entire world of expressions.
What This Harvest Gave Us
The 2024 vintage produced Almanua, Almanua F, and Guri — the first children of this project. Wines that already carry the identity of Requião’s maritime terroir, with that salinity and structure that excites us.
On the mountain side, the Alvarinhos from Melgaço were still in process. Gerações would be the next chapter.
VineVinu was born from the belief that place makes wine. And that the best is always yet to come.