Quinta Vale D. Maria Vinhas do Sabor Superior Tinto 750 ML

Winemaking Process All the grapes are hand-picked, carefully selected in our sorting table and de-stemmed before entering the granite stone lagares, at Quinta Vale do Sabor. All the grapes are foot-trodden in the lagares, they then ferment for 7 or 10 days at controlled temperatures between 22º and 27ºC, in stainless steel vats with manual pump-overs. The wine is then transferred into second and third use French-oak barrels of 225L where the malolactic fermentation takes place. It ages, afterwards, for 18 months in the same oak barrels. The final selection and blending of the wine is done one month before bottling.