Quinta das Bágeiras - Grande Reserva Sparkling Wine

A good soft, vigorous sparkling wine and good harmony with bubbles.

Made with grapes from our best vineyards. It is vinified with an open spout, with the must placed in small 1m³ decanters where it remains for 24 to 36 hours to decant through natural precipitation. At the end of this process, the must is transferred to stainless steel tanks where it ferments, with temperature control carried out with a drop of chilled water. Here we try to have a base wine in which there is a little more alcohol content, while maintaining a high acidity. The base wine is normally sparkling in March of the following year and, in the case of Grande Reserva, it ages for 48 months in the cellar before disgorgement .

It is a traditional method sparkling wine, fermented in bottles, with the remuage done by hand in wooden pupitres. Being a natural brut, there is no added sugar in the expedition liqueur.
With some degree of aging, this sparkling wine is only produced in harvests of exceptional quality.