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Colour Brick Red. Aroma Intense and lifted complex aromas of spices ,cedar and vanilla combine with fresh dark wild berries and ripe blood plums. Palate Elegant attack, developing to a rich full and round palate of great balance. Displaying rich Douro berry fruit characters with integrated oak tannins with a great length of finish. Grapes are hand picked and transported to the winery in small plastic crates. Prior to destemming they are put on a conveyor belt in order to carefully select the best quality fruit for the fermentation. The fermentation is carried out in open plunging tanks along with a number of specially designed fermentation vessels which enhance the mouth feel of the wine. Near completion of primary fermentation the skins are pressed with a basket press in order to extract soft tannins from the skins with all pressing combined with the free run. Grape Old Vines mixed plantings among 25 to 30 different grape varieties.
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