IDENTIFICATION
BRAND: QUINTA DA PRELADA
REGION: Douro
TYPE OF WINE: Douro DOC Red
PRODUCER: Samuel Magalhães e Silva, Heirs.
YEAR: 2013
TASTING NOTE
COLOR: Red
AROMA: Ripe black fruit. Floral.
FLAVORS: Notes of black fruits and spices. Dense and harmonious body. Long aftertaste.
HOW TO SERVE: Cheese and white or red meat.
TEMPERATURE: 16 / 18 ºC.
OENOLOGY
HARVEST DATE: 2013/09.
VINIFICATION: In foot-treading presses.
AGEING: 12 months in French and American oak barrels.
CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
ALCOHOL: 14.5% vol.
TOTAL ACIDITY: 5.41 g/dm3
RESIDUAL SUGAR: 2.6 g/dm3
pH: 3.74
VINEYARD
SOIL: Schist.
CLIMATE: Cold and rainy winter, hot dry summer.
VARIETIES: Touriga Nacional, Touriga franca, Tinto Cão, Sousão and Roriz.
VINEYARD AGE: 30 years.
PRODUCTION: 3000
VITICULTURE TECHNICIAN: Rui Magalhães.