Maria Mansa Tinto 2021

The Maria Mansa red is elegant, fresh and well-balanced, with soft approachable tannins, our Maria Mansa red wine offers delicious notes of red fruits on the palate, typical of the wines from this region, in good harmony with the notes of wood. This balance gives us a high quality wine from the Douro, which is softer and more immediately accessible than the rest of the Noval range, ready for immediate consumption.

Grape Varieties: Maria Mansa is a blended wine of noble Douro grape varieties: 40% Touriga Francesa, 25% Touriga Nacional, 20% Tinta Roriz, 15% Sousão.

Tasting Note: Maria Mansa Red presents an intense ruby colour. It reveals young, lively aromas, with a mixture of red and wild fruits, all beautifully integrated with some oaky notes, which gives it more complexity. On the palate the wine presents a wonderfully balanced structure and body with well-integrated round tannins. Its very noticeable freshness drives it to a long and seductive aftertaste.

Winemaking: All the grapes are handpicked and destemmed. The wine is vinified at Quinta do Noval in stainless steel vats at a controlled temperature between 25 and 27°C. The malolactic fermentation is also made in stainless steel vats.

Ageing: The wine is aged for 12 months in French oak barrels of 2 or 3 vintages.

Serving Temperature: 16ºC-18ºC

Winemaker: António Agrellos