Quinta das Bágeiras - Espumante Super Reserva

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 Super Reserva, ages for 24 months in the cellar before disgorgement. 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.