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This wine challenges the classic profile of the best Alentejo wines. Its personality and complexity results from the climatic conditions, the selection of the best estate grapes and the creativity of our winemakers.
We defied the plastic artist Rui Sanches to illustrate this year’s label.
2012, Concour Mondial Bruxelles – Silver
2011, Essência do Vinho – 17 points
Integrated Production (certificate)
This harvest was characterized by a rainy winter followed by a long and mild summer. These cooler summer temperatures allowed for ideal grape maturation conditions.
SOIL TYPE
Granite and schist stone with clay loam soil.
AVERAGE AGE OF VINES
12 years
Whole bunch membrane pressing after 24 hours of cold temperature storage, cold settling, controlled temperature fermentation in new french oak barrels.
6 months storage on lees with battonage.
Private Selection Red:
Over time, we have been expanding the knowledge about our land in Alentejo. We have a better understanding of its potential and make the most of the uniqueness of the vineyards to produce fine wines, at nature’s pace.
That knowledge takes shape in Private Selection, through a combination of select parcels from the different territories, along with separate vinification and ageing, according to each variety’s profile. This is a full-bodied wine, with texture, intensity, and vitality, that reflects the diversity and richness of Esporão’s territories in Alentejo and, in exceptional years, results in Torre do Esporão.
Private Selection White:
Esporão Private Selection white was launched in 2001 under the name “Garrafeira”. The desire to make a distinctive white wine that would challenge the classic profile of the great wines of the Alentejo, led winemaker David Baverstock to bring the Sémillon grape variety from Australia to our Herdade dos Perdigões estate. This French origin grape variety is iconic in the Barrosa Valley region of Australia, where it grows in a climate similar to that of the Alentejo.
Planted in granitic soils, clayey and deep, the Palmeiras vineyard has adapted well to our soils and the Alentejo heat. It is from this vineyard that the Private Selection White was born.
Every year we invite a new artist to illustrate our labels, and every piece of artwork has its own individual story to tell.
David Baverstock and Sandra Alves
Cristal clear, straw colour.
Papaia and goiaba notes with toasty oak complexity.
Complex, creamy, elegant with good balance and persistence.