Picotes Tinto

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).

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)

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

Serve at 14-16°C

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