Monte Bluna Reserva 2020 White

The best wine, when nature wants it!

How many of you remember ever having a DOC Arruda wine in your glass? Surely very few. Rescuing the centuries-old prestige of this region with a profound vocation for wine production is part of the aims of the very young Monte Bluna project.

Monte Bluna starts its journey in 2015, with the purchase of a small vineyard of Aragonez, aka Tinta Roriz, with more than 40 years old. From the almost entertainment and taste for the good things in life of its founder, who upon making the first wine in 2016 realized that quality could be a serious case.

Vinification
Monte Bluna Reserva White 2020 is a blended wine from the Arinto and Vital varieties, the latter being very rare. The grapes were harvested on the same day, manually, with choice, to small boxes of 20 kg. In the cellar, the grapes were again Hand-picked and then destemmed. the crush - passive - was the result of transportation to the press, where followed short maceration and gentle pressing. They were fermented together at room temperature. half of already Arinto e Vital finished fermentation in cask and the other half migrated to the casks after fermentation. Was used French oak casks from the Allier forest of 400 L, 300 L and 225 L, with various low-intensity toasting regimes. They staged in those same casks for 9 months, until their bottling on the 19th of July 2020. To preserve the its quality, Monte Bluna Reserva White 2020 was bottled without treatment, thus being able to give rise to the training natural deposit.

Guard
Although it can be consumed right away, it presents predicates to evolve many years in a bottle, as long as properly stored.

Analytical Parameters
Alcohol 13.0%
pH 3.37
Total acidity 7.0 g/l

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