Palhete is a traditional light red wine from Portugal, typically a field blend of white and red grapes. In the town of Mêda, where the Carvalho-Martins family is from, their style, dating to the 1960s, is a bit more specific...

75% native red varieties/25% white varieties. From a single hectare of 40-year-old vines, a field blend of red and white varieties, planted at almost 2000 feet in elevation on a schistous, north-facing hillside in the Douro. The bunches are co-harvested...