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Favonius Red 2022
14,50 €
Made exclusively from the Touriga Nacional grape variety. In the Lisboa region this variety becomes less floral and more fresh fruit. The region also makes it harder to mature red wines, both in colour and in tannin content. For this very reason, they opted to shorten the maceration, gaining less tannins and keeping the fresh fruit, making an easy drink type of wine, without loosing the variety and regional characteristics.
| Producer | Producer: Authentic Wines Oenology: Rodrigo Rodrigo Martins |
| Region | Lisboa |
| Grapes | Touriga Nacional (100%) |
| Soil | The vineyard is located in Alcobaça, inside the Lisboa demarcated wine region, on chalky-clay soil. The harvest was done by hand and took place on the first week of September 2022. |
| Winemaking | The grapes were destemmed and went through a prefermentation cold soaking for 10 days. After two days of a wild fermentation in stainless steel vats, the juice was drained and the fermentation continued without the skins. These were lightly pressed, and the resulting juice was blended to fill the stainless steel vat where the wine aged. |
| Aging | Stainless steel vat. |
| Capacity | 750 ml |
| Volume | Alcohol by Volume: 13% |
| Temperature | 14ºC - 16ºC |
| Harmonizations | Grilled octopus, stewed chicken and grilled veal cutlet. |
Favonius is the name of the Roman God for the western wind, that has usually been considered the mildest and most favourable of the directional winds. In the Lisboa region, were they produce the grapes, the western wind is predominant and comes from the Atlantic Ocean, having a huge influence on the grapes. The name Favonius suites the wines perfectly.
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