Summary
Muxagat Vinhos started as a small garage winery in 2002 in the tiny village of Muxagata. The company was started and owned by winemaker Mateus Nicolau de Almeida along with Eduardo Lopes. They quickly found success with their delightful, inventive wines and moved the following year to a winery in Meda. Abandoned during the revolution in 1974, the Meda winery’s sparkling granite walls and lagars make visitors feel as if they’ve stepped into a time capsule. The first Muxagat harvest in 2002 produced 5000 bottles of red wine.
The Muxagat vineyards are situated in the cooler, high-altitude Douro sub-region of the Douro Superior. Here they are bringing back to life very old steep slope vineyards which they farm organically. The soil is schist and climate conditions result in very low, concentrated yields, around 2.2 tons per acre.
Winemaking and methods at Muxagat is simple- they grow and produce wines using traditional Portuguese methods such as foot-trodding the grapes in granite lagares, and aging in concrete, amphora, or used French oak . Today, under the guidance of Luis Sebra, Susana Lopes and Ana Sofia Silva raise the wines practicing a very minimalistic approach.
