Moreish Cerceal 2024

Moreish Cer.c.hal 2024

100% Cercial — White Wine Without Denomination (Bairrada)
Certified Organic

Introduction

Moreish Cer.c.hal 2024 is born from an obsession with a rare and almost forgotten grape variety: Cercial. After five years of searching, Luís Lopes finally finds the ideal vineyard in Bairrada. The philosophy remains unchanged — minimal intervention, maximum expression of terroir. A wine of remarkable purity, made through spontaneous fermentation, unfined, with extended ageing sur lie in stainless steel and used oak barrels. Faithful to its origins yet driven by a contemporary vision, this white wine is intense, saline and irresistibly fresh. A true Moreish wine: impossible to stop at just one glass.

Winemaking and Ageing

• Organic grapes, hand-harvested

• Spontaneous fermentation (no added yeasts)

• Aged on fine lees for 10 months

• 75% fermented and aged in stainless steel tanks, 25% in used 225 L Austrian oak barrels

• Unfined

Tasting Notes

Bright, clear lemon colour. On the nose, fresh and expressive with aromas of lemon, orange blossom, wet stone and dried herbs. On the palate, it is tense and saline, with vibrant acidity. The delicate structure and pronounced minerality reflect the clay-limestone soils from which it originates. Long, precise and dry finish, with a subtle iodine-like note.

Technical Information

• Region: Bairrada

• Soil type: Clay-limestone

• Grape variety: 100% Cercial

• Alcohol: 12% vol.

• Total Acidity: 6.83 g/l

• Volatile Acidity: 0.33 g/l

• pH: 3.15

• Residual sugar: 0.3 g/l

• Free SO₂: 19 mg/l

• Total SO₂: 45 mg/l

• Malolactic fermentation: Complete

• Bottling: July 2025

Producer

Luís Lopes — Moreish Wines
An itinerant project focused on minimal-intervention wines sourced from singular Portuguese terroirs.