2022DonaBertaReservaCurtimentaRabigatoReservaDouro,Portugal

<p>Exclusively Rabigato grapes, from vines located at a high altitude – around 500 m– which allows for slow maturation and, therefore, obtaining balanced and fragrantgrapes.</p><p>The year 2022 was one of the hottest and least rainy in the last 20 years in Douro and wasalso the year in which the vines had least foliage (smallest Leaf Exposed Surface) in thelast nine years. The plants did not return as they deviated and had fewer leaves and manydry leaves. The same underdevelopment justifies the recording of the smalletst berries from the last 20 years – only the 2005 berries come close to the “peas” of 2022. And in theunirrigated vineyards the grape berries were even smaller than the fields that are irrigate.Small, but resistant – and proof of this was this Curtimenta that we produce.</p><p>Crushing the grapes with total destemming and without using sulfites, given theunpolluted health of the grapes. Fermentation at about 25 0C for eight days, as if itwere a red wine, with pumping over with aeration twice a day. After fermentationand clarification, part of the wine was aged in oak barrels for ten months. Bottlingwas done after light fining and fine filtration.</p><p>-From the importer</p>