Cycling Ecopista do Dão One Way, full-day from Coimbra
After hotel pickup in Coimbra, we take direction to activity start in Viseu. Day dedicated to bicycle touring on an old railway branch that has 130 years of transpor...
Structure
Drinking window
Best 2 to 10 years from vintage.
vintage2 yrs10 yrs12 yrs
Critic scores
No critic score is published for this bottle that we can cite with a reviewer, a vintage and a review year, so none is shown. The rating in the header is our own.
What it pairs with
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Oysters
Baga's acidity is the reason it was chosen for sparkling wine to begin with. -
Salt cod fritters
A classic-method sparkling handles fried salt-cured fish. -
Presunto
The bead and acidity cut through cured ham fat.
Facts
- Producer
- Casa da Passarella · visiting guide
- Grapes
- Baga (100%)
- Classification
- DOC Dão
- Oak
- Classic method, made as the house's 1930s and 1940s sparkling trials were
- ABV
- 12.0%
- Price
- €45 at the estate shop
- Drinking window
- 2-10 from vintage
Frequently asked about Casa da Passarella O Fugitivo Espumante Baga
What grapes are in O Fugitivo Espumante Baga?
One hundred percent Baga, at 12 percent alcohol.
Why does Casa da Passarella make a sparkling Baga?
The estate says it recovered the sparkling-wine trials carried out in the 1930s and 1940s by Dr Mário Pato and tried to reproduce that legacy in the bottle, made by the classic method as it was then.
What awards has O Fugitivo Espumante Baga won?
The estate lists ratings from Wine Advocate and Wine Enthusiast on its awards page for this bottling.
Tags
Taste it where it is made: tours and tastings in Dão