Profetas e Villoes Listrao dos Profetas Branco 2024

Listrao dos Profetas is a white wine made from the Listrao variety (our Palomino Fino) by Antonio Maçanita and Nuno Faria at their Vinho do Porto Santo winery in Madeira, Portugal.

We all know about Madeira's fortified wines, and the eldest in Porto Santo say that it was there where the grapes with more maturity and grade were grown to make the best Madeiras. On this Island of Porto Santo today there are barely 14 hectares of old vines cultivated by a handful of crazy people and prophets, which is what the people of Porto Santo are called in the archipelago.

It is something worth seeing how the vineyards protect themselves from the wind with small walls, or by driving the grapes well below. This is the case of the farm from which Listrao dos Prophets comes from, a vineyard over 80 years old planted on calcareous and sandy loam soils that are harvested in August, manually and fermented in used Burgundian barrels, without the participation of sulfur. A natural Madeiran wine, therefore, that is intense, saline, mineral, with notes of gunpowder and iodine (and look, we like iodine in a wine). In the mouth there is body and there is texture. An Atlantic wine with personality.