Sparkling Wine Brut
Maria Valduga
Brut Vintage
750ml

With excellent creaminess and a fine, persistent perlage, this sparkling wine is the result not only of the best Chardonnay and Pinot Noir grapes of the Vale dos Vinhedos, but also the evolution in the silent darkness of the underground cellars where it rests for five years.
  • Sparkling Wine Brut
  • 80% Chardonnay and 20% Pinot Noir
  • 60 months of yeast autolysis
  • Vale dos Vinhedos
  • Chardonnay 12 months in oak (10% of the total volume)
  • 4º to 6ºC
  • Guard until 10 years after dégorgement. Provided it is maintained in the right conditions for full development.
  • Lobster and grilled scallops, salmon rolling.

Appearance: Clear and bright, yellow color straw. It has fine and persistent perlage, culminating in a noble and imposing crown.

Bouquet: Elegant and intense bouquet with notes of fruit in syrup, referring mainly to the pear and apple. The aromas of buttery brioche and gently toasted bread express the complexity acquired during the slow maturation of this sparkling wine.

Palate: Reflects a unique way of the excellence of Vale dos VinhedosTerroir in the elaboration of sparkling. The most rigorous selection of the best Chardonnays and Pinot Noirs, combined with a careful and slow development process, gives a sparkling unique character with incomparable creaminess. Complex, remains vigorous freshness, which supports its great intensity, topped by a magnificent aftertaste, where they show the evolutionary notes


Technical sheet
Varietal Clone: Entav 95 | Entav 777 
Rootstock: 101-14 | 3309
Production System: Simple Espalier
Density/ha: 4.000 plants
Type of prunning: Guyot
Gems Load/ha: 40.000
Harvest: Manual and selective.

Winemaking
Traditional Method
- Final selection of bunches;
- Direct pressing of the grapes, discontinuous and delicate;

- Cold static cleaning of must;
- Use of selected yeasts;
- Alcoholic fermentation with temperature 15 ° C;
- Filtration;
- Matured for 60 months causing yeast autolysis,
- Riddling in pupitres;
- Degorgement, corking and labeling.

Analytical report
Alcohol: 12,5%
Total Acidity: 6,45 g/l of tartaric acid
Volatile Acidity: 0,17 g/l de acetic acid
Density: 0,995
Dry Extract: 30,0 g/l
SO2 Total/Free: 0,102 / 0,013 g/l
Total sugars: 9,70 g/l
pH: 3,13
Pressure: 5,50 kg/cm²