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EVG Red 2018

Alveirão

Winemaker: João Nunes Region: Tejo, Portugal

Alc: 14% : Aragonês () (20%), Castelão (35%), Trincadeira (35%), Touriga Franca (10%) PH: 4.43 Profile: Earth, slate, underbrush. This is mostly red fruit driven by its TA: 5.11 g/L acidity and rusticity. Tart blackberry and herbaceous notes on the nose RS: 0.6 g/L turn to a more tannic, and more tart raspberry profile on the palate.

Sulfur: 80 ppm Growing: Castelão is quite malleable, the grape likes sand as much as it likes our limestone soils, a truly vigorous variety that can Soil: White Limestone succeed in many types of settings. Trincadeira - one of the strangest and most difficult varieties ever - big cluster, low ratio (cluster/vine), keeps Altitude: 80m its' metabolism under drought and very hot climate. It has high sugar, Age: 14 years low tannin, low color, high acidity - it has some kind of yellowish leaf, (that's why in Portugal we also call it Tinta Amarela- Red/Yellow). Production Size: 667 Finally, Tinta Roriz (Tempranillo) is sensitive to mildew, very vigorous variety, lower acidity, high on tannins! This is the first time that Touriga Pairing: Duck, pheasant, veal, Franca, a late ripening variety was added. pork tenderloin, farro with mushrooms, roasted : Minimal approach, using native yeasts. No new , all mushrooms of any kind, pork aged in stainless steel. ramen, beans, burritos Cuisines: Portuguese, Mexican, More About the : It's Alveirão inside the bottle. EVG - is not a Japanese, Spanish, Southern medical exam, instead it stands for Encostas do Vale Godinho, the French, Piedmontese. regional appellation for this wine.

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