Herbaceous, Red Fruit, and Pepper / Spice, Sweet Spice and Smokey
BODY: Medium
DRYNESS: Dry
ACIDITY: Medium +
TANNIN: Medium
ALCOHOL (%): Pronounced (12-14%)
Origin: Lisboa, Portugal
Grape Varietals:
Castelão
Winemaking:
Minimal Intervention
Destemmed, Wild yeast, and Malolactic Fermentation
Maturation: 7-12 Months Concrete Tanks and Oak Barrels
Awards:
WESTERN FOOD PAIRING
Rosemary chicken, salmon with fennel, cheese
ASIAN FOOD PAIRING
Grape Varietals & Region: 100% Castelao from Lisboa, Portugal
Taste Profile: Hugo Mendes Lisboa Castelão Red has an intense red color, aroma of wild berries and black pepper, fine spices. This is a fresh wine, full of beautiful aromas of red fruit notes. It has an herbal touch of tree bark and pine needles, that will make you salivate. Mouth taste with ripe tannins, medium body, medium high acidity impeccably calibrated in the wine, all fresh and enveloping.
Bottled early, it is understood that it gives an interesting and uncompromising taste, but full of balance and harmony. Long and persistent finish.
WInemaking Process: Picked at the same time and fermented together. It undergoes a simple vinification. Total destemming, closed vat, spontaneous fermentation, pumping over as often as necessary to maintain the wine, followed by early pressing. Malolactic fermentation also took place spontaneously. 20% was aged in barrels to help season the lush fruit.
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