Wine & Soul Guru White 2024

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Wine & Soul Guru White 2024

Wine & Soul Guru White 2024 is one of the great white wines of the modern Douro, created by Sandra Tavares da Silva and Jorge Serôdio Borges, a couple of winemakers who founded Wine & Soul in 2001 with the ambition of showcasing the power of the region’s old vines and indigenous grape varieties. Sourced from old vines of traditional Douro white grape varieties, planted on north-facing slopes at an altitude of around 600m, the Guru showcases the freshest, most mineral and elegant side of the Douro Valley. The 2024 harvest took place under excellent conditions, with the grapes picked on 18 August, allowing for the preservation of acidity, aromatic purity and great definition. It is a white of great class, designed for those seeking a serious, gastronomic Douro white with ageing potential.

Vinification: The grapes were carefully selected, destemmed and pressed in a pneumatic press. Fermentation took place over four weeks at low temperatures in French oak barrels, 9% of which were new. The wine was aged in the same barrels for 8 months, with bâtonnage, gaining texture and complexity without losing freshness.

Tasting notes: A very seductive and elegant wine, with aromas of white flowers, lime, white peach and mineral notes. On the palate it is very long, with a smooth texture, pronounced freshness and an excellent finish.

Grape varieties: Old vines of traditional white Douro varieties, including Viosinho, Rabigato, Códega do Larinho and Gouveio

Wine Type: White Wine
Format: 0,75L
Vintage: 2023
Country: Portugal
Region: Douro
Robert Parker: RP95
Jancis Robinson: 17,5

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The showy white 2024 Guru has a perfumed nose with notes of spices, smoke and toast; it's balsamic and faintly medicinal/minty, with complex aromas that open to reveal complexity as it sits in the glass, citrus, herbal and floral, clean and intense. It has been produced since 2004 with old vines from the village of Porrais in a zone of transition from schist to granite, 18 micro plots of very old vines planted with a field blend of multiple varieties, mostly Viosinho, Rabigato, Códega do Larinho and Gouveio. It fermented in 225- and 500-liter French oak barrels, only 5% of them new, for eight weeks at low temperature, and it matured in barrels with bâtonnage for nine months. It's still young and undeveloped, a little marked by the wood, but it has a good track record for absorbing the wine and gaining in complexity. The wine reached 12.5% alcohol and kept a pH of 3.31 and 5.5 grams of acidity. 19,568 bottles produced. It was bottled in May 2025.

Tightly wound aromas of citrus and pear with a very light note of white blossom. The oak is almost invisible at first but as the wine warms in the glass there’s a suggestion of oak in spice and mealy/creamy notes. The oak shows a little more on the palate, flinty/smoky and rounded but also slightly chewy in texture. The dry, stony personality is interwoven with the fruit. Mouth-watering freshness, piercingly pure, medium-bodied but persistent. Just a baby and needs time to unfurl. Extremely precise with more intensity than power.

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