A yellow colour, elegant white wine with aromas of citrus, minerals and hints of tropical fruit. Intense and aromatic taste, an excellent balance, a creamy structure ending in a beautiful aftertaste. Hard to resist, but much better after 5 to 10 years of bottle aging
Food-Pairing
Ideal with grilled oily fish dishes such as salmon and seafood, oysters or lobster au gratin, roasted white meat dishes such as salad chicken with almonds. Also delicious with asparagus in butter sauce
Grapes: 100% Alvarinho
The Alvarinho, called Albariño in Spain, is a white grape variety. In the region of Vinho Verde, the grape is the most important, but also in Rias Baixas (Galicia) good wines are produced. The grape has a thick skin and a reasonable yield. The alcohol content of the wines is quite high. The wines have fruity aromas where apple usually has the upper hand. The grape likes a soil of slate or granite and probably has a DNA connection with the Riesling
The grapes are harvested manually in boxes of small capacity and carried to the cellar in a short space of time. After the pressing and the before fermentation with controlled temperature, the must was decanted during 48 hours at low temperature. The objective of vinification is to obtain an Alvarinho Soalheiro that concentrates the quality of the grapes and that allows to a good evolution the bottle
Alcoholcontent
12,5%
pH: 3,16
Store & Serve
Serve at 8 - 10 ºC. To drink from the second half of 2020 until 7 years after harvest
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