Luis Pato Pe Franco Vinho Regional Beiras Tinto 1999
Producent: Luis Pato
Apelacja: Beiras
Kraj: Portugalia
Kolor: Czerwone
Alkohol:14%
Pełna dojrzałość: 2010-2020
Szczep: Baga
The Man has dreams. My dream 20 years ago was to produce
a wine that could reveal us how were the wines before the arrival of
the phyloxera to Europe. That is how Pé Franco, name which is commonly
known, was born. I planted 1,2ha of Baga grape vines, directly, has it
used to be in pre-phyloxera Europe, in sandy soil – a way to avoid the
attack to the roots of the bug producer of the disease, due to his
aversion to that kind of soils. After big anxiety we made the first
harvest in 1995, seven years after the plantation. In 2005 we
commemorated the tenth harvest of this dare. The wine comes from an
area augmented to 2,5ha, where we produced, in 2005, 1.400 bottles of
750ml, 100 magnuns and 50 double magnums. As each vine produces just
one grape, i.e., a glass of wine, it is necessary the annual work of
six vines to obtain a bottle. This is due not only to the smaller
production of the ungrafted vines but also to the successive green
harvests that we make to obtain a very bodied wine that can hide the
tannins of the grape and the acidity typical of the climate of the
region, fundamental factors to give it an aging capacity to celebrate
the adulthood, a marriage or another relevant event to the daughter or
to the son, with a wine of their birth date. (informacje producenta)
