Fedellos do Couto Bastarda

I also tasted the very young and recently bottled 2022 Bastarda, which was produced like all previous vintages, with full clusters and indigenous yeasts, a long maceration and an élevage of eight months in used 500-liter French oak barrels. Bastarda (Merenzao or Trousseau) tends to show more varietal in warmer years like 2022 (or 2020), but it's still pale and delicate. They picked the grapes quite early that year. 5,000 bottles were filled in May 2023.