Malvasia Maceration White maceration 2021

Malvasia Maceration White Maceration 2021,

Ladidadi/Pinheiro

In the small collection of Ladidadi-Pinheiro bottles that we offer, this one plays the role of white maceration, in other words, orange wine. It is therefore a dry, medium-bodied wine, delicately acidic, both round and bold with notes of citrus, particularly grapefruit. Malvasia Maceration says it all in its name: 100% Malvasia, it comes from vines growing at low altitude (420-460 meters) in the hills of Penalva do Castelo, in the Dão wine region of Portugal. The plots, with granite and clay-sand soil, are surrounded by chestnut trees, pines, olive trees and oaks, and face south. The harvest is destemmed and undergoes three weeks of maceration with foot and hand treading, resulting in slow pressing. Fermentation is spontaneous, using indigenous yeasts. The wine is aged for ten months. No addition of sulfites or other chemical inputs from the vine to the bottling, which is done without filtration.

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The duality of the name Ladidadi/Pinheiro is simply due to the fact that this winemaking entity is the result of a friendship: that of Florian Tonello, creator of the Ladidadi Wine brand, wine merchant-DJ-globetrotter who devotes his life to making natural wines known and loved, and Hugo Pinheiro, winemaker at the head of a small estate of two and a half hectares in Penalva do Castelo, district of Viseu, Dão appellation (central Portugal). Together, they decided to produce several vintages of natural wines, obtained through organic farming, manual harvests, fermentation with indigenous yeasts, without filtration or the addition of sulfites, from the emblematic grape varieties of the appellation on an estate planted around thirty years ago, with a small part planted in the 1980s. We therefore find Touriga Nacional as the main grape variety in red, followed by Clarete, Jaen and Encruzado, and in white Malvasia, Cerceal, Bical and Terrantez. Vibrant, lively wines, and a great opportunity to discover Portugal's wine-growing region in natural mode.