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White Wine
Manoella
2023, 75cl
Douro

14,44
approx. £11.99

 12.5%

 2024-2028

 Serve at 8º-10º

89/100  Wine Spectator

 

O Produtor, tasting note published in February 24th 2024

Intense and bright color with aromas of spring flowers and fresh lime. Round and with good mouth volume, it presents a fine freshness, purity of flavors, and excellent balance.

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Manoella

The white wine Manoella comes from vineyard grapes with 57 years old, located on a north-facing slope with granitic soil, planted with the grape varieties Gouveio, Viosinho, Rabigato, and Códega do Larinho, at an altitude of 600 meters.

Manoella is born from the hands of the winemaking couple, Sandra Tavares da Silva and Jorge Serôdio Borges, who have invested in and purchased old vineyards and properties in the Pinhão valley. “Our main goal is to create wines that express all the character of old vines and indigenous grape varieties of the Douro, seeking the balance between freshness, complexity, and elegance.”

Vinification: The harvest took place in perfect weather conditions on August 27th. The properly selected and destemmed grapes were pressed in a pneumatic press. Fermentation took place in stainless steel tanks and cement egg, at low temperatures over 8 weeks.

Aging on fine lees for 6 months.

Allergens information

Contains sulphites.

SKU: 104270

Wine & Soul

When in 2001 we, Sandra Tavares da Silva and Jorge Serôdio Borges, started our journey to make our own wine we had neither vineyards… nor wine. All we had was a dream, a vision, a project in common that would embrace our life as a couple. It&cute;s easy to understand why we named our company ‘Wine&Soul’ a project that we put our heart and soul into, warm and personal wines that symbolize our life.

We started making a garage wine we called ‘Pintas’ (spots), a single vineyard red wine that derives from a very old vineyard, a traditional Douro old vineyard mixed planting that holds over thirty varieties together. We wanted to make a full bodied wine, a wild and vertiginous wine that would parade and illustrate the flair and colossal landscape of the Douro Valley. Pintas just shows the best version of the Douro, that voluptuous fruit of the Douro, the raciness, the enthusiasm and the perfect balance of the long and lasting finish.

Later we came up with the remaining wines of our portfolio, the red Pintas Character, an easier more fruit driven version of Pintas, the white Guru, a single vineyard white we source from the high altitude vineyards, Vintage Port Pintas and our very special 5G Port Wine, a very, very old Tawny Port that comes as a blend of several very old Port wines, most of them over a hundred years old Ports.

In 2009 we inherited Quinta da Manuella, a fabulous estate planted mainly with very old vineyards, south oriented, some of them over an hundred years old. Some blocks younger, over thirty years old and did start new plantings since we received this estate in 2009. Our very first wine from our ‘youngest’ property, Quinta da Manoella Vinhas Velhas, quickly became one of the best and most remarkable wines in the Douro.

Wine&Soul has embodied the spirit of the new wave of high quality and strong individuality Douro wines sourced from very old individual vineyards, low yields limited production wines that showcase the character of each particular vineyard, the very special nature of each unique terroir. Wines made with a minimal winemaking intervention giving way for nature and terroir to take the lead and speak for themselves.

Over the years we have looked for old traditional vineyards, preferably the ones who traditionally have been used to make outstanding Vintage Port. We do believe in the close association and strong correlation between Port and Douro wines and we are keen to demonstrate that the best Port wine vineyards are equally the very best vineyards for the greatest Douro wines.

Address

Wine & Soul

Av.Júlio de Freitas
Vale de Mendiz
5085-101 Pinhão
Portugal