Ruby colour. Very attractive and complex aroma with red fruits and spices. The palate shows a very elegant Port wih fine tannins and a silky texture. This Ruby Reserva is as well long as soft in the final.
Passadouro Ruby Reserva
Douro Doc, Sub-região Cima Corgo Vale Do Rio Pinhão
Altitude : | 100 tot 350 mts |
Soil : | Terraces, Vertical vineyard and Traditional walls |
Yield : | 20 hl/ha |
Plantation : | 10.000 pied/ ha |
Varieties : | Field blend vineyard with traditional Douro varieties |
Harvest : | September - October, handpicked using 20 kgs plastic cases. |
Grapes are hand picked and the fermentation was done in ‘lagares’, food trodden and temperature controled. The aging was done during 5 years in large wooden barrels.
Nice brick colour. Very attractive and complex aroma with ripe berry fruit and aromas of butterscotch, figs and prunes combined with attractive nutty and spicy notes. Smooth and round on the palate. Very elegant and rich on the final.
Porto DO, Sub-Region Cima-Corgo, Rio Pinhão Valley
Altitude: | 100 to 350 mts |
Soil: | Schist |
Plantation System: | Terraces and Vertical vineyard and Traditional walls |
Yield: | 20 hl/ha |
Varieties: | Field Blend vineyard with traditional Douro varieties |
Harvest: | September -‐ October, handpicked using 20 kgs plastic cases. |
Grapes are handpicked. Fermentation was done in granite lagares and the grapes were foot trodden. The aging took place in small wooden barrels (pipas of +/- 500 liters) during minimum 6 years. Before bottling the wines rest for several months blended in a big vat, to enhance balance and complexity.
Very dense, dark red colour. Intense aroma with hints of black berry preserve and spices. In the mouth very rich and concentrated with plenty of flavours and a long finish, good structured wine with huge bottle aging potential. Since this wine was bottled without stabilisation or filtration, this port wine will show sediments growing older. To avoid these sediments best decant before serving.
Douro Doc, Sub-região Cima Corgo Vale Do Rio Pinhão
Altitude: | 100 to 350 mts |
Soil: | Schist |
Plantation System: | Traditional vineyard with schist terraces |
Yield: | 20 hl/ha |
Varieties: | Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinta Roiz, Tinta Amarella, Sousão, Tinta Barroca, Tinta Cão |
Harvest: | Second half of September handpicked using 20 kgs plastic cases. |
The handpicked grapes are rigorously selected before being trodden by foot in temperature controlled granite lagares. The aging of this port takes places in big old wooden vats during 4 years, bottled in 2014.
Very deep in colour. Elegant and concentrated aromas of black fruits combined with spicy and fresh notes. The mouth feeling is smouth, balanced with fine tannins and very good acidity. Long finish with dark chocolate flavours.
Douro Doc, Sub-região Cima Corgo, Vale Do Rio Pinhão
Altitude: | 100 to 300 mts |
Soil: | Schist |
Plantation System: | Terraces and traditional walls |
Yield: | 15 hl/ha |
Varieties: | Field Blend vineyard with 30 indigenous grape varieties |
Harvest: | Second week of September 2011, handpicked using 20 kgs plastic cases. |
Footroden in granite lagar with stems contact. Six days of maceration with controlled temperature. Aging during 24 mouths in Portuguese very old oak barrels. Bottled in June 2013.