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O Arinto das Indígenas do Morgado 2022
27,90 €
Straw yellow color, intense nose, notes of linden, iodine in the mouth, textured and rough, like something only nature can do.
| Producer | Producer: Fitapreta Vinhos Oenology: António Maçanita and Sandra Sárria |
| Region | Alentejo |
| Grapes | Arinto (100%) |
| Soil | Year the vineyard was planted: 2017 Altitude: 307-314 m Location: Paço do Morgado de Oliveira. History: The grounds of Morgado de Oliveira are blessed with water, and the silver water aqueduct is fed by wells bought by King João II from Morgado de Oliveira at the end of the 15th century. Vineyards existed here before the Morgado was established in 1306. According to several authors, it is the oldest vineyard area in Évora that we can remember. |
| Winemaking | Manual harvest at night, sorting table, direct press without crushing and without sulphites until the end of fermentation. Cold decanting for around 12 hours, without additives. Fermentation in barrels without any temperature control using "pé de vat" from the indigenous yeasts of the Morgado de Oliveira vineyard. |
| Aging | 15 months in barrels on fine lees. |
| Capacity | 750 ml |
| Volume | Alcohol by Volume: 11,5% |
| Temperature | 10ºC - 12ºC |
| Harmonizations | Oven-roasted sea bream, fish stew and octopus cataplana with sweet potatoes. |
In the southern foothills of Serra d’Ossa, this place is special, you can feel it! Two streams bring the rainwater from the Serra keeping the ground cool in the torrid Alentejo heat, never lowering the water table below 5 meters. Here is where the vine used to be planted, the Chão dos Eremitas, “Chão”, an old term for flat areas, and “Eremitas” referring to the Hermit monks of São Paulo’s order. Here, there’s evidence of uninterrupted wine production since the 14th century. XIV. The vineyard was so important that a Papal Bull in 1397 exempts the “Pauperes Eremitas” from paying taxes in their vineyards. But archeology goes further, discovering the only Phoenician wine amphora of Portugal’s inland, dating to the 8th century BC. This links this place to wine about 900 years before the arrival of the Romans, in which there are 3,000 years of history linked to wine.
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