Quinta de Santa Teresa Essência Branco 2020

Quinta de Santa Teresa Avesso Essência combines the acidity and freshness of the Avesso variety with a fat and round character resulting from the 16 grams of residual sugar it contains. It is a semi-dry or “off-dry” wine, gastronomically challenging that reveals its best when well married, at the beginning of the meal.

Grape Varieties: 100% Avesso

Tasting Notes: With a golden color, on the nose it shows hints of spices and ripen fruits as apricot or quince. On the palate we find it unctuosity and volume paired with a vibrant acidity, providing freshness and balance to the natural sweetness of the wine. Notes of ginger and caramelized fruits. Pleasant, persistent finish

Vinification: Grapes arrive to the winery in 24kg boxes. They are hand-selected and destemmed before going thru skin contact process and a gentle pneumatic press. The must ferments in French barrel for around 12 months. Stabilization and tender filtration take place. No animal derivate is used in the process, making it a vegan-friendly wine. A special care was taken into this process, minimizing any impact, with the intention of producing a wine that expresses well the particularities of the grapes and terroir.

Production Mode: Integrated. Sustainable Agriculture. Manual Selection. Minimum Intervention. Vegan. Natural Cork Stopper.

Gastronomy: It goes very well with starters with some fat content, such as full-fat cheeses or foie gras.

Winemaker:: Fernando Moura