Capacity
0,75L
Range
Criação Velha
Wines Variety
White
Volcanic
Grape Varieties
Arinto
Arinto dos Açores
Verdelho
Producer
Azores Wine Company
Harvest
2022
Wine Regions
Açores
Wine Freshness
Fresh
Wine Styles
Old Vines
Reserve Wine
Mineral Wine
Oaked Wines
Salty Wines
Dry Wine
2022
Arinto dos Açores (>85%), Verdelho, Alicante Branco and Boal.
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.
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.
Selective manual harvest to 20kg baskets. After sorting table, whole bunch press, natural racking after 12hours and spontaneous fermentation in 250L horizontal stainless steel tanks and a 228L used French oak barrel.
12% Vol.
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 .
Store at 6ºC, to be served at 10ºC, and drink at 12ºC.