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VINTAGE NOTES White wine |
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All information about the various WHITE vintages from the Adega do Cantor website |
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Vida Nova Branco 2005 Vintage Note: The year started with the pruning of the vines in the vineyards – Quinta do Moinho, Quinta do Miradouro and the new one; Vale do Sobreiro. All three vineyards are now established and are starting to produce high quality fruit for the wines. The 2005 growing season was heavily influenced by the drought that occurred during the preceeding winter. Bud burst occurred through March and early April and apart from a little rain at flowering the vines had a long, healthy, dry growing season. The lack of gound water meant that we could control the growth of the vines easily through irrigation and allow some controlled water stress. This enabled us to produce a higher quality of fruit. Vintage started on 23 August, was fine and dry and went without a hitch. We kicked off with fruit for a new edition to the range Vida Nova Branco (white), followed by the Rosé fruit and then the Reds. The fruit quality was excellent throughout. We yielded 130 tonnes off all the vineyards and have high hopes that the wines will be the best yet. Vida Nova Verdelho is the latest release from the Adega do Cantor. It is our first white wine as well as our first single varietal wine. Verdelho is an indigenous Portuguese grape variety native to the island of Madeira and to the Douro region in Northern Portugal where it is also known as Gouveio. |
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Technical
Specifications: Country
of Origin: Portugal Region:
Lagoa,
Algarve. Appelation:
Vinho
Regional Algarvio. Wine
Style: White table wine. Varietal
Constituents: 100%
Verdelho Harvest:
2005 Vineyard
Area: 2Ha Soil Type: Free draining sandy loam.
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Organoleptic
characteristics: Appearance:
Attractive light straw with pleasing green tinges. Nose:
Complex spicy mix of lime, melon and peach. Palate:
Layered palate with rich, ripe mouth filling fruit flavours, good length
and clean acidity. A big wine with lots of upfront fruit, alcohol and
some residual sweetness but still retaining elegance and balance. Temperature:
For serving - 10ºC Accompaniment: Light meats, grilled fish and asian
food. Bottles
produced: 875 bottles. Price: Unfortunately Vida Nova Branco 2005 has sold out.
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Wine
Analyses: Alcohol: 14.5 %v/v Volatile
Acidity:
0.37g/l Total
Acidity:
6.5g/l pH: 3.37 Total So2: 138mg/l
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White Branco 2006 |
Vida
Nova Branco 2006 Vintage
Note: The weather was kind during the early part of the growing season allowing for even budburst. Some unsettled weather from flowering through to fruit set initially gave cause for concern but this proved unfounded as we had a very good berry set and some lovely bunch formations. Although winter rainfall was about average, coming after a dry year it had more of an effect on the vines than normal giving them more vigour and a tendency to overproduce canopy. This resulted in a lot of canopy management operations to keep the root, shoot and fruit ratio in balance especially on our more established vineyards. Post fruit set and through to early ripening the weather was excellent as usual. An August heat spike retarded some of the ripening and the plants had to be irrigated to keep turgor in the berry, avoid canopy shut down and allow us more hang time to ripen the tannins. Sugars, as usual were excellent at between 12.5 and 13.5 Be at the end of August when we commenced harvest on the Whites and Rosés. Harvest was hot at the start but cooling off through September. A small amount of insignificant rainfall also occurred but did little more than clean the bunches. As we had an (average) wet year coming after the dry one the plants were very productive. The yield was above average on the Rosé blocks; this would also have been the case on all the other blocks had we not done up to 3 passes to remove fruit. 2 passes on white and red grapes, 3 passes on reserve blocks. The wines are looking good, the components are big but even. The Rosé is fruity with less residual sugar than in previous years (approx 10g/l). White is excellent; again with less residual sugar than last year; and alcohol levels on the reds are high but matched by acid, fruit intensity and structure and therefore very well balanced.
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Technical
Specifications: Country
of Origin: Portugal Region:
Lagoa, Algarve. Appelation:
Vinho Regional Algarvio. Wine
Style: White
table wine. Varietal Constituents: 75%
Verdelho; 25% Viognier. Harvest:
2006 Vineyard
Area: 5Ha Soil Type: Free draining sandy loam.
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Organoleptic
characteristics: Appearance:
Attractive light straw with pleasing green tinges. Nose:
Complex spicy mix of lime, melon and peach. Palate: Layered palate with rich, ripe mouth filling fruit flavours, good length and clean acidity. A big wine with lots of upfront fruit, alcohol and some residual sweetness but still retaining elegance and balance
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Wine
Analyses: Alcohol:
13.7 %v/v Volatile
Acidity:
0.42g/l Total
Acidity:
7.7g/l pH:
3.26 Total
So2:
149mg/l Accompaniment:
Light meats, grilled fish and asian food. Bottles produced: 9100 bottles.
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| Tasting Notes: Vida Nova Branco is a rich, ripe white wine offering a complex nose of citrus and tropical fruits with touches of spice. The palate is soft and fully rounded with flavours of peach, melon and lime, finishing with a crisp, elegant balancing acidity. Delicious lightly chilled on its own or with a wide variety of dishes such as hearty green salads, shellfish and Thai cuisine. |
