Monte Bluna Tinta Miúda 2020 Red

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 Tinta Miúda 2020 is a single varietal wine made from an indigenous and rare grape variety from the region of Arruda dos Vinhos The grapes were harvested manually, with quality sorting, into small boxes of 20 kg. In the winery, after a new qualitative manual sorting, the grapes were completely de-stemmed and passively crushed. A short pre-fermentation maceration was carried out, and the
fermentation took place in stainless steel vats at a controlled temperature of 20º C. During this period, pumping over of variable duration and interval was carried out. The malolactic transformation, of finishing, took place in light toasted French oak casks from Allier Forest. It matured in these same casks for 9 months. Then, it completed 12 months of maturation in a stainless-steel vat, for sensory enhancement and increase in complexity. Bottling took place in June 2022 and
commercialization began in 2023. To preserve its quality, Monte Bluna Tinta Miúda 2020 was bottled without treatment, thus giving rise to the formation of a natural
deposit.

Guard
Although it can be consumed now, it has the potential to evolve positively in bottle for several years, as long as it is adequately kept.

Analytical Parameters
Alcohol 11,5 %
pH 3,19
Total Acidity 6,33

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