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Red Wine Quinta do Ribeirinho Pé Franco
The Man has dreams. My dream 20 years ago was to produce a wine that could reveal us how were the wines before the arrival of the phyloxera to Europe. That is how Pé Franco, name which is commonly known, was born. I planted 1,2ha of Baga grape vines, directly, has it used to be in pre-phyloxera Europe, in sandy soil – a way to avoid the attack to the roots of the bug producer of the disease, due to his aversion to that kind of soils. After big anxiety we made the first harvest in 1995, seven years after the plantation. In 2005 we commemorated the tenth harvest of this dare. The wine comes from an area augmented to 2,5ha, where we produced, in 2005, 1.400 bottles of 750ml, 100 magnuns and 50 double magnums. As each vine produces just one grape, i.e., a glass of wine, it is necessary the annual work of six vines to obtain a bottle. This is due not only to the smaller production of the ungrafted vines but also to the successive green harvests that we make to obtain a very bodied wine that can hide the tannins of the grape and the acidity typical of the climate of the region, fundamental factors to give it an aging capacity to celebrate the adulthood, a marriage or another relevant event to the daughter or to the son, with a wine of their birth date.

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