Alicante Bouschet, Cabernet Sauvignon, Alfrocheiro and Aragonez
Enjoy
Red meat and game, strong cheeses and spicy sausages
Tasting Notes
Clear, dark garnet-coloured wine, with black fruit, gooseberry, blackcurrant, cocoa and spicy aromas. It is an intense, complex and nicely structured wine, with wellbalanced acidity and tannins and a lasting finish
Consumption
16 - 18ºC
Vinification
The grapes are selected, destalked, and then the maceration takes place at a cool temperature. The fermentation is carried out in tanks at controlled temperature and the grapes are foot-pressed
Ageing
12 months in 1-year and 2-year French and American oak barrels. After bottling, the bottle rests for 12 months in the cellar
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