Chinado Palheto Tinto

Description

When we started taking care of this abandoned vineyard plot, with its old, twisted vines, we didn’t know what to expect, but soon imagined making a wine from it – a true wine of the vines. The mix of grape varieties in the vines guaranteed diversity; we just had to find the right point of ripening for the harvest. So, we first hand‑picked the predominantly white grapes in mid‑September, leaving them in the cold for the first days of October while we harvested the red grapes, which then joined them in the cellar. The grapes were simply destemmed and hand‑crushed, left to macerate until spontaneous fermentation kicked in, and then pressed into two used barrels. The result is a fresh, elegant Palheto, intense on the palate, enjoyed chilled like a white or at red temperature, always with great pleasure. Chinado Palheto 2019, a unique wine of the vines. (Illustrative image only)