Casal Sta Maria Ramisco Colares Tinto 2010

Vineyard: Pre-filoxera vineyards, planted somewhere in the XIX century. Typically located on pre-historical sandy-dunes on the cliffs over the Atlantic, the ungrafted vines are deeply rooted in the layer of clay which is normally between a depth of 2 to 4 meters. These vines are trained like ground bushes.

Grape Varieties: Ramisco

Tasting Notes: Delicate flavours of exotic wood with spicy hints, complex organic matter, mushrooms and cedar resin from the forests of Sintra. Atlantic savory notes with a very interesting iodine flavor and some red fruit. Smooth and velvet on the palate, with mushrooms and iodine taste, soft but firm tannins with a crispy and very elegant acidity, aftertaste of pinions and cedar resin, good concentration.

Vinification: Hand-picked grapes in late October, undergoes natural fermentation and stays 2 more weeks in “cuvaison”. It sleeps for 6 years in old wooden (exotic wood Brazilian; ex:. Mahogony) casks of 3.000L and afterwards two more years in 225L old French oak casks. Before its release, spends one year in bottle.

Consumption: Should be drunk around 17ºC. To be opened in 2020, although wine improves in bottle after 15 years.