Aldeia de Cima Reserva Red

First vintage: 2017
Owner: Luisa Amorim
Winemakers: Jorge Alves and António Cavalheiro
Viticulture: Joaquim Faia
 

Vine

Sub-region: Vidigueira, Estremoz and Portalegre
Soils: acid silty-clay, clay-limestone, schist-clay
Harvest: manual
Production Mode: integrated
Production: 40hl/ha
 

Additional production notes

Grape varieties: 40% Trincadeira; 30% Alfrocheiro e 30% Aragonez
Ageing: 9 months in French oak barrels 30% used + 20% new + 6 months 30% cement + 20% clay
Alcohol: 14,1% alc.
Acidity: 4,7g/l
Date of bottling: June 2019
Production: 8200 bottles
 

Harvest

From 22 August to 30 September, 2017. The 2016/2017 winemaking year dispels any doubts about the climate change that we are currently experiencing, given its atypical characteristics – as an extremely hot and dry year – which speak for themselves.