Food pairing
A delicious white wine, ideal with white meat dishes, shrimps with curry sauce, salted fish and salads.
Grapes : Rabigato, Viosinho
Planted on the slopes of the Vale do Rio Sabor, the grapes that make up the 2021 Vale D. Maria Douro Superior white come from Quinta Vale do Sabor, in the Douro Superior, and the vines are between 20 and 35 years old.
After the manual harvest at Quinta Vale do Sabor, the grapes are destemmed. Half of the batch is foot pressed in granite vats and the rest is fermented in stainless steel vats. After fermentation, 65% of the batch matures in stainless steel vats. The remaining 45% undergoes the last third of alcoholic fermentation in used 500L French oak barrels. Aged for 6 months in French oak barrels with weekly batônnage
Alcohol content
13,5 %vol
pH: 3,42
Store & Serve
Serve at 12 °C
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