CSL AL-RIA Tinto 2021

€ 13.60

Casa Santos Lima Al-Ria is a wine with a deep colour, with violet shades and good concentration in the nose. It's a lovely vintage of this wine, based on the dark-coloured, perfumed touriga nacional grape, with tinta roriz (Spain's tempranillo) for structure and freshness, and international interloper syrah for its spice. Rich in aroma, with notes of ripe black fruits, jam and floral. In the palate it presents smooth and velvety notes of ripe fruit, chocolate and vanilla. Multi-layered, fragrant and seductive with generous spicy flavour.

A wine from the Algarve, with Diogo Sepulveda as an oenologist. Diogo is one of the young oenologists of Portugal who now also operate in Casa Santos Lima after Quinta do Pinto and Chocapalha. For 2 years he has been responsible for the production of wines in different regions and has already won several prizes and medals.

Food pairing

Serve with salami or spicy dried sausages, Portuguese cuisine, stews, marinated (pork) meat, cheeses, hare and deer dishes

Grapes: Touriga Nacional , Syrah , Tinta Roriz

Viticulture : Density of 4.200 Plants/ha. Clay and limestone soils

The grapes, previously destemmed, went through a low temperature pre-fermentative maceration for 24 hours. The alcoholic fermentation was done in small stainless vats with temperature control, not going over 27° Celsius for 12 days. The wine aged, partially, for 5 months in French and American oak barrels.

Alcoholcontent

14,5%

Store & Serve

Store in a cool place (around 12ºC)

Serve at 16-18 °C

Critics & Awards

Tags: Casa Santos Lima - Algarve