GARDUNHA SUL
After 15 years working in the classical oenology industry and other food industry areas, and fed-up of doing “coca-cola” wines, André Duque Lourenço decided to pursue a long-lasting dream: making wine in the Beira Baixa region, and so Gardunha Sul was born.
The base idea behind the project is to make honest and uncomplicated wines, without any additions or “finishings”, giving all the attention to the grapes and vineyard. The main focus is always the same: minimum intervention in the vineyard and in the cellar, letting the grapes take their own path in becoming wine, revealing all their potential in a natural way.
Another pillar of the Gardunha Sul project is to forage, collect and reproduce ancient local and regional grape varieties, almost forgotten to time – varieties that enrich the wines with typicity and identity.
The location of the winery allows to harvest grapes from the south part of the Gardunha mountain, where the grapes mature very well in the hot dry climate (giving more body, structure, and alcohol) and harvest from the north side, where grapes have a longer period of maturation due to a milder climate, which gives less alcohol, more natural acidity and more elegance. The conjugation of both sides results in a balance that only this region allows.
