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Producer: Dos Lusiadas
Vintage: 2018
Country: Portugal
Region: Douro
Categorie: red wine
Bottle size: 75 cl.
Ripeness: 2024 - 2028
Taste: trocken
Winestyle: fruchtig & weich
Food recommendation: Porco Preto, Francesinha, Cozido, Portugiesische Gerichte, Grilladen
Alcohol content: 13.5 %
Purple red colour. The wine has this certain something in the nose and on the palate, which can hardly be described. A likeable ultra delicious fruity note. Almost reminiscent of the flattering fruit of an outstanding Late Bottled Vintage Port. But still youthfully fresh and yet full-bodied and deep. You must have tasted this wine from the exceptional oenologist Michel Chapoutier.
The grapes are hand-picked in small crates of 20kg. Vinification in small tanks with a long vatting of more than 4 weeks. The wine is matured in concrete tanks and French oak barrels of 2 to 4 years.
Founded in 1808, Chapoutier is regarded as the institution in viticulture in southern France. But it wasn't until 1990, when Michel Chapoutier took over responsibility for vineyards and winemaking from his father Max, that the house set off on a successful journey. The young winemaker searched the whole of southern France for good terroirs and added new domains and vineyards in Provence and Roussillon to the family empire in the northern Rhône. The success of the terroir fanatic Chapoutier is based on crystal clear principles: First of all, he has consistently converted his vineyards (even those he has "only" leased) to biodynamic cultivation, because in his opinion only healthy soils can produce great terroir wines in the long term. Secondly, he is an advocate of the "mono-cépage" philosophy, which means that he prefers wines made from a single grape variety. Thirdly, Chapoutier is a follower of absolute selection. As a result, over the last ten years he has introduced a whole series of single vineyard top crus to the market. Because of the minimal quantities produced (often less than 5,000 bottles) and the high ratings in the American media such as Wine Advocate by Robert Parker and Wine Spectator, these cult wines fetch astronomical prices. Among the most famous of these prestigious crusts are Le Pavillon, Le Méal and L'Ermite, which mature in the hills of the Hermitage. They come from vines up to 100 years old and the yields are incredibly low at 8 to 20 hectolitres per hectare. With its enormous range of up to 40 wines per year produced by Chapoutier, it is considered a prestigious pioneer and perhaps the most important international figurehead in controlled organic cultivation.Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator
Highly altered schist soil on the surface with a subsoil of unaltered schist from 30-40cm.
