Pacheca Grande Reserva Touriga Nacional 2019 Douro D.O.C.

Pacheca Touriga Nacional is an elegant wine with good aromatic intensity, notes of bergamot and violet with well integrated wood. It reveals good structure in the mouth, rounded tannins, freshness, and a long and persistent finish.

APPELATION
Douro DOC, Portugal 
HARVEST
2019
GRAPE VARIETIES
Touriga Nacional
BARREL AGING
18 months in French oak barrels
VINEYARDS
This wine is exclusively obtained from the grape variety of Touriga Nacional from a 32 years old parcel installed at 140 meters of altitude.
VINIFICATION
After careful selection by their best state, the grapes were harvested for chests of 25 kg and sent to the winemaking center where they were fully de-stemmed. Fermentation occurred during 9 days in the traditional 7-ton granitic stone tanks with foot stepping and smooth reassembles for blanket leaching and extraction of phenolic and aromatic compounds. At the end of the alcoholic fermentation the wine was transferred to new French oak barrels where malolactic fermentation oc- curred and aged for about 18 months.
VITICULTURAL YEAR
The 2019 vinicultural year began with a rainy spring after a rigorous winter which was later found to have a major importance in securing soil water reserves. This was the key to the drought and heat conditions that followed dur- ing June and July. In the maturation period during August, the diurnal and nocturnal temperatures were milder which allowed to preserve the acidity of the grapes obtaining balanced must and consequently elegant wines.
WINEMAKER
Maria Serpa Pimentel