Description
BRAND: Abade de Couto
WINERY: Adegas Valmiñor
VARIETIES: Brancellao, Sousón, Caíño Tinto
TYPE OF WINE: Red
APELLATION: D.O. Rías Baixas
DRINKING TEMPERATURE: 15ºC
Processing
Handmade harvest and selection of Sousón, Brancellao and Caiño tinto, coming from our highest vineyard located in O Rosal valley, “Figueiró”, which is characterized for its mineral soils, where the metamorphic schists predominate. Grape selection table, destemming and soft pressing. Cold pre-maceration at 12oC followed by a traditional alcoholic fermentation, which takes place at a controlled temperatura of 21ºC. Daily pumping over techniques are used to oxigenate and get color intensity.
After that, cooling to 17-18ºC to avoid the malolactic and let the wine microxigenate in a smooth and continuously. Finally, malolactic fermentation in French oak barrels. Bottling and resting in the bottle for 2 months prior its distribution.
Tasting
Abade de Couto has an intense garnet color with a high layer purple rim. On the nose, it presents a great intensity, aromas of cherry, plum and red blackberries, all together within caramel, toffee, vanilla and cocoa notes, with an elegant and slight background of spices. In the mouth, it is initially fresh and Atlantic, and after that it shows a great structure and unctuosity, which ends up into a dry but slightly sweet point.