Textura da Estrela Tinto 2019

A low intervention red wine, with short pump-overs in the first days of fermentation and then manually lowering the blanket.

Grape Varieties: Vinha Velha (35%), Touriga Nacional (30%), Jaen (20%) and Alfrocheiro (15%). Vineyards from 25-60 years old at granitic soils, treated in a sustainable practice, without herbicides, are in conversion to organic certification since 2020.

Tasting Notes: It is a wine with great refinement and freshness. It has a mineral and earthy character, light pepper and some red fruit. Shows velvety and textured tannins, very thin but slightly spicy of the stem. Gastronomic profile asking for food and dry and long finish. It ages for an even more elegant wine.

Winemaking: The grapes are handpicked. The juice fermented with wild yeasts only in stainless steel tanks with 35% whole bunch followed by a 30 days cuvaison. It has aged for 15 months in used french oak vat and barrels. Naturally stabilized.

Gastronomy: Red wine that pairs roasted duck, stewed squids or truffle mushroom pasta at a service temperature of 16ºC.

Winemaker: Luís Seabra