0186 Red

Summary

Color: Red

Region: Douro DOC

Content: 750ml

Alcohol: 13.5%

Varieties: Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz, Tinto Cão, Tinta Barroca, Sousão and Rufete.

Tasting Notes

Tone: Ruby

Nose: Ripe red fruits with spicy hint

Palate: Dry with juicy tannins. Fruity and spicy, good body and persistent finish

Service Temperature: 16ºC-18ºC

Food Pairing: White meats, oven-roasted goatling and octopus, rice duck

Vinification

Vinification: Grapes harvested and selected by hand. 50% were foot trodden with fermentation beginning in granite tanks. The rest were pressed gently, with 3 days of cold maceration. Fermentation at controlled temperature.

Ageing: The foot trodden grapes f aged in French oak barrels for 6 months. The remaining batch aged in stainless steel vats.