Arribas Wine Company 'Saroto' Tinto

Full of wild forest fruits with a kick of natural sourness. Acidity adds juiciness and balances the grippy tannins, making for quite a light red.

Old vine field blend (grapes are harvested and fermented together from a vineyard planted with multiple grape varietals). Tinta gorda, tinta serrana, bastardo, rufete, alvarelhão, alfrocheiro, verdelho, malvasia, bastardo branco, posto branco, formoa and more. 70% red grapes, 30% white.

Saroto Tinto is made from a small, old, field-blend parcel of old-fashioned red and white varieties. The whole bunches are foot trodden in a traditional lagar and macerated for 4 days allowing the juice to start fermenting naturally with indigenous yeast and without temperature control (wild fermentation). This wine is unfined and unfiltered and may present a deposit over time.

Best served at around 16ºC. From room temperature (22ºC) to 16ºC is about 20 minutes in the freezer.

From grilled sardines to poultry and game.