Wine Region |
Dão |
Grapes |
Touriga Nacional (80%), Tinta Roriz (5%), Jaen (5%), and Alfrocheiro Preto (5%) |
Climate |
Continental with maritime influence |
Soil |
Granite and clay |
Viticulture |
Royat single cordon and guyot, no green harvest, 4000 to 6000 plants per hectare, 30 to 50-year-old vineyards |
Harvest |
Last week of September, hand harvest, 13% potential alcohol |
Wine Making Technique |
12 days of total skin contact, stainless steel fermentation, malolactic in the barrel |
Oak Influence |
one-year ageing in 225 liters old barrels, French and Portuguese oak follow by minimum 6 months in the bottle |
Fining Material |
Bentonite |