Manoella Branco 2024
Region: Douro
Producer: Wine & Soul
Manoella is Jorge and Sandra's second estate, situated slightly higher than the Pintas vineyard. Here too, the couple produces intensely flavoured Douro wines.Manoella white comes from a 55-year-old vineyard planted with Gouveio, Viosinho, Rabigato and Códega do Larinho on a northern slope with granite soil.
It produces a fresh but above all soft white wine with a tendency towards chardonnay-like plumpness.
| Volume | 75.0 cl. |
| Grape Variety | Gouveio, Viosinho, Rabigato and Códega do Larinho |
| Drinking window | 2025-2028 |
| Alc. | 12.5% |
| Vinification | The grapes were pressed on a pneumatic press and fermented on stainless steel tanks at low temperatures during 4 weeks, |
| Ripening | in stainless steel with fine lees |
Waar serveer je ’m bij?
Manoella is Jorge and Sandra's second estate, lying a little higher than their Pintas vineyard, and with white they go about it exactly as with the Vinho do Altar: pneumatically pressed, four weeks of cold fermentation, and then ageing in steel with the fine lees kept. That last point is what makes the difference — that lees ageing gives a creamy layer beneath the fruit. Gouveio, Viosinho, Rabigato and Codega together, weight ten: broader than the Altar and with more flesh on the bone.
Stuffed chicken leg with sage and bacon
Tagliatelle with asparagus and ham
Serveren op 10–12 °C
Wine and Soul started in 2001 as the life's work of Sandra Tavares da Silva and Jorge Serôdio Borges, both winemakers and then newlyweds. They were determined to make high-level wine and almost immediately succeeded in gaining international recognition for their wine.
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