{"title":"September 2025 Wine Club","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"quinta-da-costa-do-pinhao-gradual-douro-tinto-douro-valley-portugal-2022","title":"Quinta da Costa do Pinhão \"Gradual\" Tinto, Douro Valley, Portugal 2022","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFROM LA LUZ SELECTIONS:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE WINE: \u003c\/strong\u003eTouriga Nacional, Touriga Franca \u0026amp; Tinta Roríz. Hand harvest at the beginning of September, native yeast, spontaneous fermentation in traditional schist lagars, foot pressed using 40% whole cluster and the rest in stainless steel tanks with 30% whole cluster. The wine then finishes the malolactic fermentation in French oak where it rests to age for 12 months. A truly full flavored, dense in texture, blue in fruit rich wine that is insanely pleasurable and balanced. 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It was then that he invited his winemaking friend, the famed Luis Seabra to help launch a new generational direction for the estate. 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At the helm of viticulture and vineyard management for the acclaimed Alvaro Palacios in Priorat for nearly 18 years, Joan Asens has played a vital role in the creation of some of Spain’s most elite wines. Returning home to Mas Roig in 2009, Montsant to cultivate his friends and family’s old vines, has proved no exception. With a vibrancy and freshness unmatched in the DO, the seamless wines of Orto Vins, generally have a brighter finish, lower alcohol, and softer, floral, even elegant tannins. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoan and three of his childhood friends are dedicated to elaborating pure wines following the traditional farming philosophies of their great grandparents and honoring the biodynamic cycle of the moon. Leaving no grape behind, Joan begins a trickle harvest 6 weeks ahead of most, with daily picking and subsequent drying of all the little raisins that have developed within each of cluster of sun drenched bunches. From these earlyharvested, concentrated and dried grapes, Orto Vins makes two (white and red) very luscious dessert wines with a mild 15% alcohol. With each pass through the vineyard, with each pick, the vine’s energy focuses on the remaining fruit so that each grape is harvested at their optimum physiological ripeness. 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