“The 2024 Verdelho o Original, the varietal that started it all, is a little riper than the previous year, with a wine with 12.5% alcohol. It was a year of mildew and a very rainy winter, which caused very low yields in Verdelho. It has a bright golden color, good concentration but with balance, and it's clean and precise, crystalline and very tasty, with a clear salty twist in the finish, pretty much the signature of the year. The low-yielding years have a little more part in barrel but always used barrels that are quite neutral. They are releasing the 2024s six months later, to give them a little more time with lees before bottling. 5,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in July 2025. Drink 2025-2030”

92 Points, Robert Parker Wine Advocate, Nov 2025 

ABOUT AZORES WINE COMPANY: ONE-OF-A-KIND TERROIR IN THE WORLD!

The history of the Azores Wine Company began with a project to recover the Terrantez do Pico variety in 2010, by winemaker António Maçanita and culminates with the foundation of the company on 3 April 2014, together with Filipe Rocha, Paulo Machado. On the island of Pico, the vines grow in extreme conditions, very close to the sea and planted in the crevices of the bed rock, in volcanic soil, defying the very definition of soil. Pico's vineyards are unusually close to the sea, between 50 and 300 metres; so close that the sea sprays the vineyards with salt. Viticulture on Pico Island is as a battle between the sea and the Pico Mountain. In the Azores Wine Company's vineyards, the salt water seeps underground and mixes with the fresh rainwater in a brackish combination that the vines’ roots drink from. Currently, the recovery of the Azores' indigenous grape varieties, located mostly on Pico Island, make up the typical profile of Azores wines. Completely unique, the almost extinct Terrantez do Pico variety reveals itself with surprising freshness, minerality and salinity. The white Arinto dos Açores and Verdelho O Original monovariety from the Rare Grapes Collection, represented more than half of production. They also innovated with its Volcanic Series of red and rosé Azores wines.