Quinta dos Carvalhais Tinta Roriz Red Wine

Reviews and awards:
17 points Wine Magazine.

A robust wine on the nose. It needs time. It needs to breathe to reveal the aromas of ripe black fruits, notes of pine, pine needle, nuances of truffle and moss. Notes from the barrel also appear, subtly, where the wine spent 12 months. On the palate, it surprises with its acidity that brings freshness and its firm, gripping, yet fine tannins. It is a wine with good volume on the palate, finishing with a long and balanced finish.

Winemaking:
The grapes were unloaded from 20 kg boxes directly into the decanter-crusher, falling by gravity into small stainless steel vats, where alcoholic fermentation took place for about 8 days at an average temperature of around 26ºC. Malolactic fermentation then occurred, still in stainless steel vats, and the wine was subsequently transferred to new and used French oak barrels. During these 12 months of aging in barrels, numerous tests were carried out to monitor the evolution of the wines and determine the correct time for blending, fining, filtration, and bottling.