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The vineyards are cultivated under the supervision of local winemakers and Roberto Santana from Envinate. The harvest, as with all wines, is manual and the grapes are pressed whole in large concrete tanks where they ferment spontaneously. Maturation takes place in two large oval-shaped foudres and concrete tanks, and the wine is bottled unfiltered and...
Ronceray is a wonderful step-up in complexity and intensity from the simple, but also beautiful" Anjou Blanc from Chateau de Plaisance. Harvesting on the Chaume hill is manual and after a gentle cold pressing of the grapes, fermentation takes place with indigenous yeasts. 30% of the wine is matured in Burgundy barrels for 12 months and the barreled part...
It may not have the uniqueness of the Colares of winemaker Antonio Bernardino da Silva Chitas, but this wine is an excellent introduction to the important wine producing region of Lisbon and the great producer's wines. Arinto is an excellent base for wines that are reminiscent of Riesling, with acidity, freshness and a relatively harsh character but also...
Malvasia de Colares, which is genetically different from other varieties bearing the same name, is planted on the region's characteristic sandy soils with great care and effort to protect it from the strong, salt-laden Atlantic winds. In the cool coastal climate, alcohol is always restrained in these wines and the character is full of umami salinity and...
A percentage of 10% of the grape stays in contact with the peels for six days while the rest is taken to the pneumatic press where the whole bunches are pressed. The fermentation starts spontaneously and the wine will remain in contact with the wine lees for 6 months while for most of the time the Bâtonnage technique is applied and no sulfites are added...
The two Rhodites (bio & natural) that Panagiotis produces differ, not in terms of their source, but in terms of their management at the winery. And there, of course, the differentiation is faint since the philosophy is non-intrusive in both wines. However, in the case of Natural Roditis, the wine is not filtered at all and only minimal sulphites are added...
