ORIGIN: Tejo.
VARIETIES: 50% Alicante Bouschet, 30% Caladoc, 20% Syrah.
HARVESTING: Manual harvesting for 12 kg boxes.
VINIFICATION: Destemming and light crushing, followed by thermal shock to 16ºC through a mass exchanger. Cold pre-fermentation maceration for 48 hours. Fermentation in truncated conical stainless steel vats and vats with controlled temperature. Total aging of the blend for 9 months in new French oak barrels of 300L and 500L, followed by aging in the bottle for another 12 months.
ENOLOGY: Ricardo Xarepe Silva | Antonio Selas
PAIRING: Ideal with meat dishes, cod in the oven, cheeses and sausages.
TASTING NOTES: Intense and concentrated ruby colour. Aroma dominated by ripe fruit, plum and blackberry, in perfect balance with the toasted and spicy notes from the aging in barrel. In the mouth it has good volume and texture, lots of enveloping fruit and a prolonged finish. Alcohol Content (% vol.): 14.4%
