Coming essentially from the Condes de Santar House Garden, elaborated with the Touriga Nacional and Alfrocheiro Preto varieties. Violet notes enhance its intensely red colour. Its aroma is complex, offering intense fruit where bergamot and blackberry notes mix with wooden spice. Elegant in the mouth, with velvety tannins and good acidity. Long aftertaste, leaving memory.
The year 2019 was challenging, from a viticulture standpoint, but also rewarding in enological terms, giving rise to wines of great quality and longevity.
VINIFICATION
Harvesting was done in the third week of September. Grapes were manually harvested into small 25 kg boxes, following a strict selection of the best grapes in the vineyard.
They were completely destemmed, and then subjected to the traditional process of foot treading, with controlled temperature. After racking, the wine matured for 16 months in French oak barrels.
SOIL GIOLOGY
Soils of granitic origin (porphyroid granites) are well drained, but have very low fertility and water reserves. This leads to the natural control of plant vitality and to moderate water stress during the maturation period, allowing the grapes to manifest their full potential.
TASTING NOTES
Its color is deep ruby. Very complex aroma, with emphasis on spices, such as pepper, balsamic notes, cedar and tobacco box, red fruits, such as ripe plum, slate and a high-quality, well-integrated wood. In the mouth it has a vibrant acidity, very lively, very firm tannins, notes of spices, black fruits and balsamic flavors. The finish is extremely long, with great elegance and complexity.
