Marcio Lopes Proibido Grande Reserva 2018

Douro Superior is an arid, rugged, shale-poor land area with little rainfall. Their vines produce little, but good. It is there where Marcio Lópes makes his Proibido Grande Reserva, with the fruit he obtains from old vines between forty and eighty years old in Vila Nova de Foz Coa. They are small plots facing north or east, with average altitudes between 250 and 500 meters, worked by hand without herbicides or pesticides, which are cultivated with a horse, looking for a wine that is as natural as possible. Harvested by hand, destemmed and with a pre-fermentation maceration after which the wine spends fifteen months in used barrels. This Proibido Grande Reserva is a full wine with great aging capacity, to be enjoyed for the next 20 years. RP95