Skin-Contact White

White, the Old Way

Vintage2022

Orange blossom and stone fruit, white pepper, resin, honey, chalk and a slight salinity, with chipped stone and notes of tea.

On the palate

Fresh and well structured, with a long, taut and complex finish, full of individuality and character.

Grape varieties

Fernão Pires · Bical · Cercial · Rabo de Ovelha · Dona Branca · unidentified varieties

Vinification

Made the old way, by full maceration. Fermented for three weeks in an open press, on the skins, with the vines' own yeasts.

Ageing

12 months in cement and used French oak, then more than two years in bottle.

Soils

Clay-limestone

Alcohol

12.6% vol.

pH

3.31

Total acidity

6.7 g/L

Pairing

White meats, baked fish, game and cheeses.

Serve at

10–12 °C

Bottles made

1,600, each numbered by hand on the neck tag

Recognition

Jancis Robinson 17/20