Growing Conditions
This wine rises from 500 meters above sea level in the granite soils of the right bank of the Dão. These low yield vines are about 30 years old and produce high quality grapes of the varieties Jaen, Alfrocheiro, Tinta Pinheira, Tinta Roriz and Touriga Nacional. This wine is a very personal vision over the Dão and its wines, enhancing the elegance and freshness that are natural to this region.
It was a fairly cold and humid year overall with a rainy spring and a much colder than usual early summer.
Ripenning was very slow and the wines express that wonderfull freshness.
- CLIMATE: Cold, windy and wet Autumn and winter. Mild spring, dry and hot summer. Cold nights.
- SOILS: Granite, with clay,
Harvest
These grapes where picked in mid September and the result is a light and rich wine full of Dão classical elegance.
Bottling
Bottled in July 2020 and maturing in bottle ver since.
Winemaking
- WINEMAKING: Natural slow fermentation in tank.
- MATURATION: 50% in used oak barrels for 20 months, 50% in tank.
- Volatile acidity: 0,47g/l
Nose
Nose with hints of cinnamon, cherry, cocoa and a fine vegetable aroma with hints of silex.
Palate
The mouth is very elegant and delicate, with silky but tense tannins that linger through the long after taste.
Appearance
Ruby colour.