Vinho Verde - Aphros Wines

In his youth already interested in Steiner's philosophy since, and for years having led the Waldorf education movement in Portugal, he naturally follows the path of biodynamics 

 

Mountain horses, sheep, bees and special waterfalls are part of the farm life. The vines, carefully managed by cover crops, are treated with homemade plant extracts. These preparations are made from brandy and originate in the same vineyards from which he creates his wines 

 

The wines - ranging from silent to sparkling wines made according to the traditional method, and the Pet Nats (either pétillant natural is a wine with natural bubbles and is perhaps one of the purest of all natural vinifications or the ancestral method. The must is bottled before fermentation, preserving the natural carbonic acid that occurs during fermentation, the wine undergoes only one fermentation and not two as with champagne (traditional method) and nothing is added from the outside - it seems the simplest solution for vin natural, but the process is in fact very delicate: if you bottle too soon, the bottle can explode due to the carbon dioxide, if you bottle too late, you will not get enough

- are based on local varieties Loureiro and Vinhão and made with low intervention rules, based on native yeasts and with a minimum of sulphites.

 

They have received worldwide recognition and are distributed in more than 20 countries on all continents.

Vasco opened two new cellars in 2015; a contemporary cellar dedicated to the classic wine range and a medieval cellar for the production of artisanal wines in amphoras without the use of electricity, under the Phaunus brand.