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Conceito Red Wine 2012
“Wow, very Dão with its elegantly framed, floral aroma and palate and fluid seam of minerality. So bright and alive, yet very even and focused going through with wonderful levity and vivacity. Great energy and drive, just like its maker. Marques reckons it’s the best wine she has made. Can’t wait to see it in bottle.” Sarah Ahmed
“That Conceito’s Rita Ferreira Marques has the capacity to surprise was a known quality. The twenty-nine year old is the subject of my forthcoming “Unusual Suspects” feature for wine-searcher.com’s new web magazine, which explores her precocious talent. […] Marques herself is under-stated and, hyper-focused on the family vineyards and her wines, I suspect that the outward appearance of the winery as opposed to what’s in it, is of little concern. And when it comes to what’s in the bottle, she certainly delivers.” Sara Ahmed – The Wine Detective
Very impressed by these new releases from Rita Ferreira’s Conceito. They’re all really good. The Branco and Bastardo are probably my favourites, though. And the label design is just wonderfully eccentric. Jamie Goode – The Wine Anorak
Check out Jamie Goode’s article on Rita’s wines:
An exciting new producer in Portugal’s Douro region
http://www.wineanorak.com/portugal/conceito.htm
About Conceito Wines
The Conceito winery is at the Quinta de Veiga (22 hectares) in Vale da Teja, and two further properties totalling 79 hectares of Douro highland vineyards. All red varieties are grown on schist (around 400m), whilst most white is on granite (around 650m). The oldest vines here are about 80 years old, and include 2 hectares of pre-phylloxera vines at around 600m, and 5 hectares of Bastardo at Quinta da Veiga.
The nature of these upland vineyards provide wonderful freshness in the Conceito wines. Rita Marques, when not here at the family property, also makes wine in New Zealand and South Africa. The viticultural regime here is organic, since 2006, but not registered.
Young Portuguese Winemakers
Rita Ferreira Marques is a member of the Youngwinemakers initiative, a group of six young Portuguese Entrepreneurs/winemakers joined together to promote and market their wines across the globe. Yet, the sheer quality and uniqueness of their wines is not the group’s single remarkable feature: There’s a different attitude, and ambition to these boys and girls; “together, up-hill” is their motto, and this transpires into everything they do. Highly collaborative, and open-minded they all share a clear “hands-on” involvement all the way across the full wine making cycle, from vine growing, to marketing and sales. These young winemakers are poised to make a dent in the old wine making world.
More on the young winemakers initiative:
The Wine Detective – Sarah Ahmed
http://thewinedetective.co.uk/blog/portugal/young-winemakers-of-portugal-a-great-new-initiative
Wine Anorak – Jamie Goode
http://www.wineanorak.com/wineblog/from-the-road/in-lisbon-with-the-young-winemakers-of-portugal