Country & Region Serra de Estrela, Dão, Portugal
Appellation DOP Dão
Grapes, Vine Age & Soil Field blend of Encruzado, Cerceal and Bical from one thirty-year old vineyard of granite soils.
Altitude 500m
Farming Biodynamic, organic. Guyot pruning. Hand harvested.
Vintage Conditions: 2020 was a year impacted by the frosts at the end of March that caused important losses. The harvests, however, took place in September with favorable weather conditions that allowed the harvesting of healthy and ripe grapes.
Vinification: After smooth pressing, gravity decanting without use of enzymes or enological products. Alcoholic fermentation took place in a stainless steel tank and began naturally, with the indigenous yeast, to express its identity in the purest form. Malolactic is 100% done. Bottled in July 2021, unfined and unfiltered.
Sulphur: None added
Alcohol 13.5%
PH: 3.31
Acidity: 6.11g/L
RS: 0.6g/L
Production: 1500 bottles
António’s Tasting Notes and Food Pairing Suggestions: “Deep, fruity and flinty, very pure, fresh and crystalline, elegant and full-bodied saline mouth. Long and mineral finish (granite)”.
Seafood dishes, fish, codfish, white meat, dishes with cheese, grilled vegetables or salads.