Vinha Centenária

Wine from the Azores
From Pico

Vintage

2021

Varieties

Arinto dos Açores (>85%), Verdelho, Alicante Branco and Boal.

Concept

On this island, for over 500 years, vines have been planted in cracks in the volcanic rock, just 50m from the sea, where you can hear the “crab singing”. After the devastating attack of phylloxera and powdery mildew in the 19th century. XIX, the stubborn hand of Man maintained a small pocket of vines that resisted extinction.

This “Vinha Centenária” is from one of those vineyards over 100 years old that has resisted and remained the guardian of the exclusive grape varieties of the Azores and a witness to traditional vine growing.

Test results

Citrus-straw yellow color, aroma of iodine, salt, linden. In the mouth, dense concentrated attack, acidity cuts in the middle and remains until the end of the taste, salt, salt, salt and iodine, it is a “slap” of the sea.

Winemaking

Harvested by hand, selection at a sorting table, direct press, cold decanted for 12 hours, first presses vinified in stainless steel in a horizontal tank (70%), 2nd presses fermented in French oak barrels aged 3 years (30%), without lipstick for 15 months.

Alcohol

13% Vol.

Gastronomy

A wine born at sea, ready to pair with seafood, shellfish (red mullet, sea roe, sea urchins) but with a density and concentration to work with white meats with burnt fat, like a good suckling pig or even pork belly .

Conservation and Service

Store at 6ºC, to be served at 10ºC, and drink at 12ºC.