Quinta Da Boavista Reserve Red 2020

At Quinta da Boavista, to ensure the preservation of the grape variety's characteristics and total control of the production process, we use manual harvesting and manual selection of grape clusters, followed by destemming and gentle crushing of the berries. For fermentation vessels, we have traditional granite lagares with foot treading, stainless steel fermentation tanks, and for small batches, food-grade PVC containers or fermentation in new 500-liter French oak barrels. Each of these fermentation types imparts a particular style to the wine. Our winemaking philosophy is simple: to gently extract the best characteristics of our grapes. All wines age 100% in French oak barrels, and after aging between 15 and 20 months, the different batches are blended. All wines are sealed with natural cork. Since they are neither filtered nor cold stabilized, they may develop sediment with age.