Mono C Tinto 2021

A Single vineyard with 25 years old in the parish of Oliveira in Baixo Corgo area planted with an improbable varietal of red wine – Castelão – more common on the south of Portugal in yellow slate soil planted at 490m altitude.

Grape Varieties: Castelão (also known as Periquita).

Type of Soil: clay loam soil with predominance of yellow slate.

Tasting Notes: Castelão is a short cycle varietal, with soft tannins very open color like other more oxidative varietals like Gamay and Grenache, when planted in the Douro Valley the resulting wine shows a good presence of tannins. For this characteristic’s meat dishes like veal, Lamb, goat, are probably the ones where the wine shows it best. But the fact that wine have rounder structure makes it easier to drink even without food.

Vinification: Indigenous yeast fermentation with 100% whole cluster, in small stainless-steel vats, nothing was added to the wine but sulphur. Total maceration of 30 days. Ageing for 16 months in 500 litres French oak used barrels

Gastronomy: Veal, Lamb, Goat or simply by itself.

Winemaker: Luís Seabra