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Fitapreta
36,10€
Including VAT

Capacity

0,75L

Range

Chão dos Eremitas

Wines Variety

Red

Grape Varieties

Castelão

Producer

Fita Preta Vinhos

Harvest

2022

Wine Regions

Alentejo

Wine Freshness

Fresh

Wine Styles

Old Vines

Reserve Wine

Full Bodied Wine

Oaked Wines

Dry Wine

Alentejo Regional Wine


Harvest


2022

Varieties


100% Castelão. Castelão is a grape variety from the old vineyards of the Alentejo, sister to Moreto and the offspring of a cross between Sarigo and Alfrocheiro Preto.

Concept


100% Castelão. A disconcerting wine that demonstrates the role of this grape variety in the ancient Alentejo vineyards. Freshness and purity.

The "ground of the hermits" vineyard


Year the vineyard was planted: 1970


Altitude: 256-267m

History: This place is special, you can feel it! Two streams bring rainwater down from the Serra to keep the ground cool in the torrid Alentejo heat, never lowering the water table below 5 meters. It was here that vines used to be planted, and the place was known as Chão dos Eremitas, "Chão" being an old term for a flat area, and "Eremitas" referring to the Hermit monks of the order of São Paulo. Here there is evidence of uninterrupted wine production since the 14th century. The vineyard was so important that a Papal Bull in 1397 exempted the "Pauperes Eremitas" from paying taxes on their vineyards. But archaeology goes further, as the discovery of the only Phoenician wine amphora in the interior of the country, dating back to the 8th century BC, links this site to wine some 900 years before the arrival of the Romans, in what is 3,000 years of history linked to wine.

Soils


Granitoid with a strong presence of active limestone, with a slightly basic soil pH.

Viticulture


Grapes under certified integrated production without the use of herbicides.

Vinification


The grapes are selected at the sorting table, 30% whole bunch and 70% destemmed, falling by gravity into the vat. Spontaneous fermentation, tanning for 35 days and ageing for 16 months in barrels.

Tasting notes


Fragile ruby garnet color. Very fine aroma, with notes of plum, tobacco and spices. On tasting, the attack is medium-bodied with good freshness. The texture builds in the middle of the tasting, all elegance, and finishes with present and firm tannins.

Gastronomy


A red wine with good acidity, good with complex fatty fish and potted meats.

Alcohol


13% Vol.

Production


2 113 numbered 0.75L bottles released in February 2024.


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