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Barbeito

Barbeito

Barbeito

Barbeito Family and Kinoshita Syoji, Camara de Lobos, Portugal


Winemaker Ricardo Diogo

Region Madeira

Country Portugal

Soil Type Volcanic

Main Varieties Sercial, Verdelho, Boal, Malvasia, Tinta Negra

Barbeito

Founded in 1946 by Mario Barbeito, a long-time connoisseur and enthusiast, who cemented his passion for his home of Madeira and the great wines it made, by founding the smallest of all Madeira producers and bottlers. 

That passion and fascination trickled down to his grandson, Ricardo Diogo, who, since taking over from his mother more than 30 years ago, has transformed Barbeito into the most pioneering producer on the island. Ricardo possesses an unmatched energy and intuition for madeira wine, the nurturing required at so many levels. 

There is true genius here. An approach to crafting great Madeira that requires mastery of the many variables that influence how these beautiful, vibrant, and expressive wines are born. He spends countless hours tasting the progress of his wines, many hundreds of barrels, bringing the components together like composing a symphony – obras mestres - A master at work! 

Ricardo was the first to bottle vineyard-specific Tinta Negra (his Single Harvest), the first to truly understand what natural ageing in barrels can bring to the soul of his wines, showcased by his Single Cask bottlings, and the first to bottle single vineyard Sercial,  Boal, and Verdelho. The list goes on... 

We think that’s why Barbeito now stands alone amongst its peers, charting a new future chapter in the history of this great fortified wine. 

eRobertParker calls him “the Island's Gamechanger" 

Julia Harding MW says: "I find the aroma of the Barbeito wines so much harder to describe because they are very much themselves, distinctive, not a prototype Madeira - even though they are also distinctively Madeira, if that makes any sense."

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