2015/16 Herdade do Mouchão Alentejo Dom Rafael Tinto

	Topper of Mouchão
	From hand-picked alicante bouschet, aragonez and trincadeira
	Full and spicy in taste
	Delicious with grilled meat, lamb stew and even spicy fish

Tasting note Dom Rafael Tinto

Deep red wine with an understated aroma of ripe black fruit and slightly roasted nuances. The taste structure is full, spicy and with a persistent aftertaste.

Description

Dom Rafael is the most accessible red wine of Mouchão, one of the great classics in the Portuguese wine world. A 38-hectare wine estate, owned since 1901 by the Reynolds family, where time stood still and was only connected to electricity in 1991. Here wine is made without haste, as it used to be. The hand-picked grapes (alicante bouschet, aragonez and trincadeira) are brought to the cellar in 20 kilo containers and pressed in feet, large open fermentation tanks, then slowly fermented. After fermentation, the wine stays for 12 months in casks of different contents (225, 2500 and 5000 liters). This is a beautiful, classically made Portuguese wine, very distinctive from the modern school.