Chaminé Branco

History

Chaminé - pronounced: sha-min-E; translation: chimney.

The name Chaminé originates from one of our vineyard plots - ‘Chaminé de Gião’, where originally the grapes used in the wine were grown.

Current Vintage: 2007

Vintage 2007

A cooler and delayed growing season resulted in grapes with lower baumé, and wines with less alcohol but more elegance. Splendid weather at both the start and end of the harvest, of sunny, warm days and cool nights, was interrupted by a spell of inclement thunderstorms. The unusual September humidity dashed our hopes for a potential superlative vintage, into just a better than average year.

Vinification

Great fruit from local Portuguese varieties handpicked at optimum maturity. Fermented without stems at controlled temperature. This wine is filtered and bottled early to maintain clean, youthful, ripe fruit flavours.

Tasting Notes

This wine, well balanced with a cleansing finish, reveals spicy, delicate fruit flavors of stone fruits and lime.

Varieties: Antão Vaz 72%, Arinto 16% and Verdelho 12%

Total Acidity: 5.6

Final pH: 3.52

Residual Sugars: 3.4

Alcohol: 13%

Bottled on the family estate in January 2007

Total production: 108.400 bottles 75cl

Release date: May 2008

No barrel ageing

Unique Code AVIN7530473996782