Quinta das Bágeiras - Espumante Grande Reserva 2020

Quinta das Bágeiras Espumante Grande Reserva 2020 is a top sparkling wine from the prestigious Bairrada region, made by iconic producer Mário Sérgio Nuno. It has a classic, purist profile, true to the house philosophy of minimal intervention and rejection of winemaking tricks.

Made from the grapes of our best vineyards. It's vinified as free-run juice, with the must placed in small 1m³ settling tanks where it stays for 24 to 36 hours to settle by natural precipitation. At the end of this process, the must is transferred to stainless-steel tanks where it ferments, with temperature controlled by a cascade of chilled water. Here we look for a base wine with slightly higher alcohol while keeping high acidity. The base wine is usually made sparkling in March of the following year and, for the Grande Reserva, ages for 48 months in the cellar before degorgement.

It's a traditional-method sparkling wine, fermented in bottle, with remuage done by hand on wooden pupitres. As a brut nature, it has no added sugar in the dosage.
With some degree of ageing, this sparkling wine is only made in vintages of exceptional quality.