Producer António Madeira

Country & Region Serra de Estrela, Dão, Portugal

Appellation DOP Dão

Grapes, Vine Age & Soil A single vineyard of mainly Baga, 60 years old, on granite soil. Another single vineyard of many unidentified grapes, 100 years old, on pink granite soil.

Altitude 500m

Farming Biodynamic, organic. Guyot pruning. Hand harvested.

Vintage Conditions: A challenging year, with 60% of fruit set being lost to a combination of three-months of continuous rain up to mid-July followed by a four-day heat wave with 45°C winds.
Harvest began on the 23rd of September.

Vinification : Fermentation done with indigenous yeast in open vats. Minimal extraction was sought before pressing directly into used French (225L) & Austrian (600L) oak barrels , where malolactic fermentation took place until the following spring. There they aged in barrel for eighteen-months, before bottling in July 2020.

Production: 2000 bottles

Sulphur: Less than 27 parts per 1000

Alcohol 13.5%

PH: 3.74

Acidity: 5.72g/L

RS: 0.5g/L

António’s Tasting Notes and Food Pairing Suggestions: “Pure, great identity, complex, granite wrapped fresh red fruit, white cherry, flowers, sensations of aromatic herbs, pine forest. Deep, fresh and tasty mouth, silky tannins, finesse. Endless mineral finish”.

Lamb, duck, white meats, codfish