Cascale Branco de Curtimenta

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Cascale Branco de Curtimenta 2021 — Síria made like a red, twelve days on skins

An organic skin-contact white from a single Beira Interior vineyard at 690 metres. Spontaneous fermentation, ten months in 225-litre French oak, amber in the glass.

Skin contact is not a fashion here; it is what the region did long before anyone called it orange wine. The fruit is 100% Síria from a vineyard 155 kilometres inland at 690 metres, on granite with some quartz, planted east to west, Royat-trained, yielding six tonnes.

Certified organic. Hand-harvested in the third and fourth weeks of September. Destemmed and crushed, fermented spontaneously, then held twelve days in contact with the skins — treated exactly as a red would be. Ageing runs ten months in 225-litre French oak barrels. 11.5% alcohol.

Amber in colour. Dried fruit, cinnamon, fig jam and fennel on the nose. The palate has velvet tannin, real volume, elegant acidity and a fresh, persistent close.

Serve at 12–14 ºC. Drink through 2033. Pairs with red meat, Thai and Indian cooking, grilled white meat and poached fish. First vintage produced: 2018.

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