Frogs + ♥ = wine

Before becoming a winemaker, Catarina was an evolutionary biologist who spent many years studying the Iberian tree frog. She discovered that the females of this species generally only respond to, and mate with, males who call in the local frog-dialect.

One could say that these females take no risk and are happy with security providing gender conventions and related kinship systems. But this is only half of the story. Catarina’s work shows as well that some females fall for the unique beauty of the spell of a foreign male passing by their pond, and love happens.

While this happens only in very few cases, it is these couples that bring innovation to the frog population at a genetic level and in social life in general. Less then a % of change in one generation provokes significant change at a multi-generation perspective.

Because the romantic life of this tree frog species provides such a good metaphor for life in general, we have made it our totem animal and company logo. We believe that small differences challenge us to rethink what we hold for granted and allow us to shape new ways of being in the world.

And this is precisely how we envision our approach and winecraft philosophy, based on a deeply scientific attitude, sophisticated craftsmanship and quite a bit of natural randomness as well to make wines that express the individuality of each terroir and vintage year as much as the love that drives us as winemakers to do what we do.