Luis Pato's latest releases

Luis Pato is one of the most innovative and impish Portuguese producers, even if he is far from one of the youngest. Indeed, he is old enough to have a daughter, Filipa Pato, who is a well-established wine producer in her own right.

For long he was the champion of Bairrada, but eventually, disillusioned with a change in the rules that suggested a diminution in confidence in the purity of all-Baga reds and all-Bical whites, he announced that his wines would be sold as Vinho Regional Beiras instead of as Bairrada.

These are his latest releases. Not all of...