Sidónio de Sousa Vinho d'Autor Tinto 2015

Grape Varietie: 100% Baga

Tasting Note: Intense and bright ruby color, slightly smoky aroma of the grape variety. In the mouth, we are surprised by its vibrant acidity and freshness, with tannins present, but already partially soft, due to the prolonged aging in a barrel without showing any presence of wood in the wine. It is a wine that stands out for its persistence and ability to age in the bottle for another 10 to 15 years. Its consumption should be moderate.

Vinification: Crushing without destemming with cooling of the grapes in the cellar in small open lagares, where the skin maceration begins and then the fermentation, without the addition of enzymes and yeasts. The treading is carried out manually with wooden masses to increase the extraction of the vinous characteristics of the Baga variety.

Ageing: After fermentation in small open vats, the wine passes into cement vats, where it rests until December, when it is cleaned and transferred to 4,000 liter barrels of national oak, where it aged for 30 months, after bottling it aged in bottle 4 years.

Winemaker : Paulo Sousa