Winery PicotoEncosta do Picoto Branco
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The Encosta do Picoto Branco of the Winery Picoto is in the top 0 of wines of Douro.
Details and technical informations about Winery Picoto's Encosta do Picoto Branco.
Discover the grape variety: Panse muscade
Table grape with long clusters and aromatic golden berries with thin skin, sweet and typically musky in flavour. Mediterranean aromatic profile. Now almost extinct, historically grown for fresh consumption, preserved in varietal collections for its heritage value. A rare French white variety, a musky mutation of the Panse grape with characteristic muscat fragrance.
Informations about the Winery Picoto
The Winery Picoto is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 6 wines for sale in the of Douro to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Douro
Cradle of Port: opulent fortified wine with notes of candied black fruit, cocoa, fig, walnut and spice, from young fruity Ruby to oxidative amber Tawny, plus age-worthy LBV and Vintage of exceptional cellaring. Also great dry Douro DOC reds, structured and deep (violet, black-fruited Touriga Nacional, elegant Touriga Franca, spicy Tinta Roriz). A few fresh Douro whites. Terraced vineyards (~40,000 ha) UNESCO on schist.
The wine region of Duriense
Portuguese IGP covering the Douro and Porto area (northeast), schist soils on vertiginous terraced slopes, dry continental climate, flexible status outside DOC. Touriga Nacional signature as red king (300+ authorised varieties): intense and floral with blackberry, black cherry, violet, garrigue, liquorice and mineral schist hint, firm tannins — noble Douro emblem. Supple Touriga Franca and spicy Tinta Roriz as complement. Fresh mineral whites and creative modern sparkling.
The word of the wine: Pigeage
Operation consisting of a vertical treading to push the cap of marc into the wine, which promotes extraction. Pigeage can be carried out mechanically with jacks that plunge into the vat. Traditionally, it is the men who go down into the vats and push the cap by trampling it.
