VINHO VERDE & DOURO- MARCIO LOPES

Márcio Lopes is a highly acclaimed and an award-winning winemaker. He was awarded Enólogo Revelação do Ano 2019 by Revista de Vinhos magazine and Singularidade 2019 by Grandes Escolhas Magazine.

Mark Squires from Wine Advocate commented that “Marcio’s wines are high quality, increasingly demanding attention.”

In 2010, Márcio started to make his own highly regarded wines in Douro and Vinho Verde focusing on quality rather than quantity. The purity and precision of wines are enhanced using wild yeasts and low additions of sulpur. Marcio’s wines have vibrancy and freshness typical of the natural grape varieties of the region.

Marico’s Vinho Verde wines have freshness, minerality, richness and are fruity.  The wines from the estate close to the border of Spain in Douro Superior; Márcio vinifies only quality grapes from 80-year-old vines to produce aromatic wines with freshness, fruitiness, and balanced acidity.