Tasting Notes:
This deep ruby red, medium-bodied wine has berry fruit flavours and a beautiful balance. Its fruity, tasty, and very pleasant and elegant. PORTADA means in the Portuguese language the outside or inside doors of the windows.
Vinification Method:
Classic fermentation method in stainless steel vats, with destemming and pre fermentative skin contact followed of the application of dry yeasts. Fermentation up to 30º C in the first 2/3, and lowering down to 20º C during the last 1/3. During the whole fermentative process, pumping over 2 times per day, using each time half of the volume contained in the vat. After the alcoholic fermentation, the cap is plunged for 30 days, and during that period, extraction of the gentle tannins is conducted, along with the malolactic fermentation and the natural stabilization of the wine.
- Grapes:
- Tinta Roriz
- Alicante Bouschet
- Cabernet Sauvignon
- Caladoc, Castelão
- Pinot Noir
- Touriga Nacional