Every year we choose the best barrels to bottle Redoma Reserva, although we taste all the wines without knowing there provenance, are consistently the same vineyards producing the ones we consider the best wines.
For us the best wines are those that can express the sense of place, of the mica slate soil, of the high altitude slopes of the Douro valley, the mineral character, the nerve, the intensity and complexity are the characteristics we search. Redoma Reserve is the elegant expression of Douro whites.
TASTING NOTES
Redoma reserva white shows very intense fruit notes dominated by the citric character, mineral and very elegant have a great potential to age, in the palate is very deep with complex fruit flavors, strong mineral character and great acidity as a support of the concentration, only a slight smoky character shows the barrels fermentation. The wine has great elegance and an immense ageing potential.
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
PRODUCER
Niepoort (Vinhos) S.A.
REGION
Douro
SOIL TYPE
Mica Schist and granite
VINEYARDS
Serveral vineyards
AVERAGE VINE AGE
Over 80 years
GRAPE VARIETIES
Rabigato, Codega, Donzelinho, Arinto and others
VINES PER HA
6500
PRUNING METHOD
Guyot and Royat
ALT. FROM SEA LEVEL
600-750
HARVEST PERIOD
September
HARVEST METHOD
Hand picked
MALOLACTIC
None
FERMENTATION
French oak casks
AGEING
10 month in French Oak Casks(228l)
DRY EXTRACT
16.7
RESIDUAL SUGAR
2
ALCOHOL
13
PH
3.3
TOTAL ACIDITY
4.4
VOLATILE ACIDITY
0.5
FREE SO2 AT BOTTLING
14
