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Picotes Tinto

Picotes Tinto

Red | Trás-os-Montes | 2023 | 13.2%

Fresh with vivid elegant black berry and currant fruit, crunchy acidity and enticing pencil shaving (cedar and graphite) and violet lift. Try with Croquetes de alheira (Smoked Portuguese sausage croquets) or Presunto de Porco Preto (Acorn-fed black pig ham).

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Tasting Notes

Fresh with vivid elegant black berry and currant fruit, crunchy acidity and enticing pencil shaving (cedar and graphite) and violet lift. Try with Croquetes de alheira (Smoked Portuguese sausage croquets) or Presunto de Porco Preto (Acorn-fed black pig ham).

Grape Varieties

80% red: Tinta Gorda / Verdelho Vermelho / Bastardo / Tinta Fina / Tinta de Escrever / Tinta Carvalha / Olho de Rei / (among other traditional varieties from Arribas do Douro) 20% White: Donzelinho Branco / Bastardo Branco / Malvasia / Verdelho / Formosa / (among other traditional varieties from Arribas do Douro)

Wine Making

Foot trodden with steams in a granite mill / Spontaneous fermentation (with indigenous yeasts) / 3 days of contact with the skins after starting the fermentation / Finishes the fermentation in French oak barrels

Serving Recommendations

Serve at 14-16°C

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