Quinta da Pellada Primus 2017

€ 61.86 € 44.77

A white wine with more exotic tropical fruits than the Mercado dos Lavradores in Madeira. Tight, reductive nose with some matchstick notes and lovely minerality. Complex and expressive. The palate is crisp and minerally with lovely depth and intensity. Will age well.

Real craftsmanship and an exciting well-made wine. This is the type of wine that makes you think and starts to wonder why you are still worried. Primus is Latin for "first". To say it in the words of Barry White, "this is our first, our last, our everything"!

Álvaro and Maria Castro are, in our humble opinion, Dão's best winemakers and we are not alone with this vision. This is their TOP white wine: a blend of almost every Portuguese grape variety that is conceivable, hand-picked and from 65-year-old vines that grow on granite soil. Gloriously supple, strikingly fresh, perfectly integrated oak and more balanced than a Weeble

Food-Pairing

Delicious with seafood, quiche fresh from the oven, goat cheese roasted in the oven or simply as an aperitif or just like that

Grapes: Encruzado, Malvasia, Cercial & others

Fermentation in new 400L French oak barrels. The barrels are then stored in a cool environment, so the fermentation takes place very slowly over a period of 3 months. Slow fermentation favours the development of a complex aromatic structure.

Ripening . Maturing is mainly done in the bottle. Alvaro Castro insists on bottling almost immediately after fermentation, he is convinced that this guarantees the desired high conservation potential.

Alcoholcontent

13%vol

Store & Serve

serve at 13 to 15 ºC

Can be drunk up to 10 years after harvest year

Critics & Awards

4,5/5 - Vivino (16 ratings)

Tags: Alvaro Castro - Dao