Prazo de Roriz

Notes - Tinta Roriz 40%, Touriga Franca 30%, Tinta Barrroca 20% and Touriga Nacional 10% - mostly from the younger vines, 5-10 years old. Selected grapes were vinified at Quinta do Sol where the Symington family have their modern vinification centre; there is rigorous grape selection by hand on selection tables ('triage'); inoculation with selected yeast; fermentation in stainless steel tanks (20,000 lts), maceration by pumping over with temperature controlled at 25-26ºC. Then the winer is aged 9 months in 2 year French oak casks with a capacity of 400 and 350 lts. "Quite bluish purple. Sweet, floral nose…Very pretty start, and then still tannic. Only mid-length. Low-temperature fermentation." 16/20 Jancis Robinson, www.jancisrobinson.com 2005 .
 
     

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