Loios: Vinho Tinto

This wine is named for the Loios Monks who once dominated the area. This is a very well balanced and interesting wine expressing the fresh characteristics of the grape. This wine is versatile and well paired with every day foods. This is a secret guarded with life and death of deadly kung fu monks, deadly Portuguese monks. This wine will be the making of you or this wine will be your doom. This is a fine wine for bottling in glass bottles and labeling with animals on the cover, on the label.
This is a way up for the downtrodden. This is a way out for the trapped. This is a way in for the lonely. This is a path to righteousness. This is a wine once beloved by the common people of the simple villages of the peaceful region before the domination of the monks came to be. This is a taste of history, of freedom, and of loss. This is a memorial wine. This is a casket. This is a mausoleum of interesting fruits and vegetables. This is a raft of fruit.
This grape was at one time the pride of Judea, the jewel in the crown of the Medicis, the wooden teeth of America. This is a wild grape, a fresh grape, a proud grape, a grape easily harvested. A grape not easily forgotten, a grape for the ages, a grape of beginnings, a grape of life, a grape of delicious torture. This smell of yeast and color of unhealthy blood may be as confusing to you as it was to the Loios Monks who, confused and enraged by the interesting freshness, felt compelled to dominate the region, to dominate Portugal, to steal the grape away from the people who had once uncovered its secrets, who had for years shared its secrets, taught its secrets to their children, and to lock it away in their monasteries, chained vineyards, jagged gardens of no, who forbade themselves to speak at all, lest they speak the truth about the grape, lest they share the interesting freshness with those on the outside, lest they be anything less than utterly dominant.
This is the wine of affliction. This is the wine we drink to remember our ancestors whose lives were far less filled with idle joy than ours are. This is a wine we drink for revenge. This is chocolate and almonds on the nose. This is a plate of food. This wine is such that only a true believer can taste the full range of flavors and it is said that on the day that happens, the grape will be released back to the wilds and the villages will return to healthfulness and the abbeys will crumble and the tyranny of the Loios Monks will end and be forgotten and be remembered only in jokes and songs for children who will rise up and eat, yes eat the raw grapes off the vines that they will play in too, seek shade under, climb, tend, love. This is the wine of prophecy. This is the wine of rebirth, of the color orange and the color purple. This is the wine of ink.
This is an explosion on the palate and a dark and evil finish. This wine carries the mark of dominance and will present you with a choice. This wine will ask you, with every sip, with every note, if you are Bob Dylan or you are Mr. Jones. This wine, this chalk grown, raisin built wine with its finish of blood; This wine, this overflowing sunshine through clouds fantasia; This wine; This wine is only a shadow of the wine that was. This wine is named for the Loios Monks who named it after themselves in their unholy arrogance, in their evil, their monomaniacal drive to control, to limit, to reduce. This wine is the key to their eventual fall and the rivers of blood and fresh interesting wine that will have to flow down from the cathedrals, down the mountains, down to our cisterns, down to the earth that birthed it.

Varietal: Tinto Tonto Tunto Taint
Food Pairing: This wine is versatile and well paired with every day food.