Maçanita Tinto

Descrição

Maçanita Casta tintureira (i.e., with color in the pulp) from the North of the country – “it is said to have come from the banks of the Lima River” – already appears in Girão in 1822. It also says that it has such color that one can, with the skins, “make a very good paint to cover wines lacking color,” a role now attributed to Sousão in the Douro. Yet further north, the same variety, known by the more masculine name Vinhão, is drunk raw, extreme, rough and proud like a bastion of the last rural signs. So will this be Sousão or Vinhão? Allergen information: contains sulfites.