Today is possibly my favorite type of video to make, when I taste and review for you a wine we’re offering. We have two wines here coming from Portugal that we’re offering in our wine club, two exceptional wines you can buy now, with again more info through the link in the description. Let’s talk about this Sinless 2017 from Alentejo, and its big brother called Sinner, Vintage 2016.
00:00 – Meet WineLife Project’s Sinless & Sinner
03:35 – WineLife Sinless 2017
07:30 – WineLife Sinner 2016
WineLife is a small project coming out of the South of Portugal, from an area called Alentejo, a wine region just inland of the Capital city Lisboa. It’s an old and traditional wine region in Portugal that has over the past couple of decades given birth to exceptional wines with an ever growing reputation.
Those two wines are the only two cuvee WineLife makes, as they put all their energy and know-how into them. We are on a rolled-pebbles terroir, somewhat like what you’d find in Chateauneuf-su-Pape, in a rather warm and generous climate, we’ll call it Mediterranean although there are some influences from the Atlantic Ocean, it’s warm in summer which is the most important thing for concentration and ripening the grapes.
Sinless is the little brother, made from a blend of local Portuguese grapes including Aragonês (Spanish Temparnillo), Trincadeira, Alicante Bouschet, and Alfrocheiro with a touch of Cabernet Sauvignon. Only 5000 bottles of it were produced, so a boutique project and an exclusive offering.
Sinner is the flagship here, made from the best vineyards of the property from 2 grape varieties, called Alicante Bouchet which is a grape renown for it great concentration and roundness together with Cabernet Sauvignon, arguably the best red grape variety in the world.
Both wines are fermented and matured in stainless steel tanks with the aim of obtaining the most balanced and elegant wines to counterbalance the natural power coming out of the grapes from this region. But enough said, let’s leave the wines speak for themselves…