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Spring Bundle
SALT AND SUN — A Spring Bundle from Pico Island to the Alentejo Plains
One producer just found his footing. The other has never lost theirs. Both make wine the same way — from land their family knows by name.
Some bottles are just wine. These ones start a conversation.
The best tables are not about what you serve. They are about what happens when people sit down together. “Salt and Sun” is built for that moment. Three bottles chosen to open a meal, carry it through, and give everyone around the table something to talk about long after the last pour.
Each wine in this bundle comes with a story worth telling. Where it comes from. Who made it. What the land looks like. Why it tastes the way it does. You do not need to be a wine expert to share any of it. You just need people you want to gather with.
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Two Portugals. Three Bottles. One Table.
Portugal is not one landscape. Open this bundle and you hold two of its most distinct places at once.
On Pico Island in the Azores, the youngest winemaker at twenty two years old came home during Covid, picked up his family's vines, and started making wine. Nearly a thousand miles away in the Alentejo, a family has farmed the same land along the Guadiana River since the 14th century. Five generations. The same plains. The same sun.
These are not the same story. But they share the same foundation: a family, a piece of land, and the decision to let that land speak.
When you open these bottles together, you are not just tasting two regions. You are sitting at the intersection of a first harvest and a fifth generation. That is worth a conversation.
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The Wines
Esboçopódio Arinto dos Açores 2022 — Pico Island
Lucas Amaral grows Arinto dos Açores in volcanic basalt soils inside the traditional currais — low black stone walls built by hand to shield the vines from Atlantic wind and salt spray.
The result is a white wine that carries its place in every sip. Bright citrus, green apple, and a long saline finish that tastes like the ocean is still nearby. Because it is.
Open with this one. Let it set the table.
Lagrimas de Mãe 2021 — Pico Island
Lucas named this wine for his mother, Sandra. She is a breast cancer survivor. Lagrimas de Mãe means “Tears of my Mother.”
He grows Merlot and Syrah in the same volcanic soils shaped by the Atlantic maritime climate and puts her name on every bottle.
Fresh raspberry and pomegranate on the nose. Clean, vibrant acidity on the palate. A wine that is light on its feet and carries more weight than it looks like it should.
Ask someone at your table what they think the name means before you tell them.
Herdade das Albernoas Reserva 2019 — Alentejo
From Herdade Paço do Conde, one of southern Portugal's most storied estates. The Castelo Branco family has farmed this land since the 14th century and still runs it today, five generations on.
This Reserva blends Aragonez, Trincadeira, Alicante Bouschet, and Touriga Nacional into what we call Portugal in a glass. Dark cherry, wild fruit, balanced structure.
This is the wine you open when the meal slows down and nobody wants to leave yet.
What to Do With This Bundle
Pour the white first and pass around what you know about Pico. Show someone a photo of the currais walls. Let the conversation find its own direction.
Move to the rosé and tell the story behind the name. Lagrimas de Mãe means Tears of my Mother. Lucas named it for his mother, Sandra. A twenty-two-year-old coming home and making wine for his family. That story lands differently when the glass is already in your hand.
Finish with the Alentejo red and let the contrast do the work. From a volcanic Atlantic island to a sun baked river plain. From a first harvest to a 700 year old estate. Same country. Completely different worlds.
That is the experience this bundle is built for.
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