Ravasqueira Premium Red 2014 is a tribute wine that is only released in exceptional years. It is the epitome of the potential of our vineyard in tune with the know-how acquired over the years. 2014 was considered an exceptional year resulting in this unique wine, the fruit of precision viticulture and enology that incessantly seeks the detailed manifestation of the terroir through clusters and vine stocks that, for many reasons, had a different behavior, thus affecting its concentration and richness. The tasting of this wine demonstrates the result of the expression of a selection of micro-terroirs.

Tasting Notes

Dark red colour, dense and opaque. Complex and intense nose with hints of final fermentation in barrel. Peat, cedar, light iodine, black olives, cocoa, and intense mixture of black and red fruit and dried figs. Spicy, with black pepper, thyme, and mineral extension. The tasting has trimmed tannins, thin and growing with concentration in the test medium, balsamic freshness, meat, plums, blackberries and blueberries, with a strong, mineral finish. Can, and should, be decanted. To drink between 2018 and 2038.

Ravasqueira Premium White is a tribute wine with personality and a serious profile that reveals all the passion for the unique terroir of the blocks that gave origin to it. Without revealing the percentage of each variety, it is a white wine to be stored resulting from a careful selection of the best barrels of white grapes found in Monte da Ravasqueira. Once selected and barrels closed, the wine remained for a full year in total rest, without any external influence and with total freedom of evolution, a concept that makes it unique.

Tasting Notes
It is rich in notes of lime and stone fruits, presenting itself as mineral and light in kerosene. In tasting, it proves to be very rich, with crunchy acidity. Notes of brioche, orange blossom, volume and a long finish with a mineral texture. To be drunk at a temperature of 14ºC. It demonstrates all of its qualities at the table, contrasting with most other white wines.

From a universe of 7.6 ha of five different blocks and about 25 thousand plants, through the combination of precision viticulture, specific analyses and berry tasting, 3,292 plants were selected to express the new concept of terroir. in this wine.

MR Premium Touriga Nacional 2012 had a stage of 24 months in barrels, followed by another 24 months in bottle. It transmits a more complex and fresh profile, which will allow for a positive evolution over the next 20 years. Young, austere, and complex in profile, it shows a disruptive taste given the variety used, due to the uniqueness of its minerality and freshness.

Tasting Notes
Light violet in colour, dense and dark. In the nose, it has a noble and intense profile. Notes of coffee, cane molasses, whipped cream, cedar, pine needles and light cigar. In the test, it is full, very fresh, voluminous and elegant. Great attack with long and fine tannins with a finale full of lively freshness. It also reveals notes of drier black plum and barley. To save, or to drink now.

	Harvest 2014
	Soil Argil-limestone, with rocky influence of granite and shale.
	Grape Variety Alicante Bouschet
	Vineyard 3.2 hectares
Technical Sheet: 2014

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This wine is a tribute to José Manuel de Mello, for his excellence as an entrepreneur and for his passion for wine, but also a tribute to the Alicante Bouschet variety, that became a symbol of the region. In 2014, this grape variety developed a unique balance, allowing to produce the first and only 100% Alicante Bouschet wine ever produced at Monte da Ravasqueira.
Just over three hectares gave rise to 6,686 bottles, in an exclusive and special production, thanks to precision viticulture. This wine aged for 28 months in French oak barrels and 12 months in bottle, which will allow a positive evolution over the next 20 years.

Tasting Notes

Dark and typical in Alicante Bouschet’s color. This wine is the maximum expression of what can be an Alicante Bouschet from the Alentejo. Powerful and mature in the mouth and nose does not lose the virtue of the grape variety to generate fresh wines and always with notes of green grass or pinewood that help the prolongation of his life. With strong tannins but without affecting the tasting and with the wood that was purposely present it becomes a great wine to keep in your cellar.

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