Algueira Ribeira Sacra Carravel 2017 bleasdale-vineyards Dark bright red

Dark bright red

this dishwasher friendly range is designed to be used every single day

The wine shows a brooding nose of dark berry fruit

is both fresh and young

We had a very dry spring leading up to vintage 2016 and it was windy

Algueira Ribeira Sacra Carravel 2017 bleasdale-vineyards Dark bright redBoth Algueiras flagship Mencas are released five years after harvest. While the Pizarra hails from the warmer terroir of the Carballo Cobo vineyard, Carravel is drawn from several old vine terraces which hug a cool zone of perilously steep slate and schist soils in the Doade subregion. The fruit was hand harvested, then foot trodden and fermented with roughly 20% whole bunches in large wooden tronconique vats before spending between 12 and 24 months