Nuño Mira do Ó "Druida" Encruzado Dão, Portugal
Nuño Mira do Ó "Druida" Encruzado Dão, Portugal
750ml bottle
12.5% abv
Elegant and complex nose of granitic minerality. Notes of apple, citrus, thyme, flint, and spices. The palate shows great freshness and elegance with volume, structure, and an elongated finale. A truly remarkable wine.
VARIETY: Encruzado (100%)
No BOTTLES: 12,580 bottles 750ml; 465 Magnum 1.5L
CLIMATE: Cold, windy, and humid autumn and winter. Mild Spring and dry, hot summer.
SOILS: Granitic, with clay.
WINEMAKING: Fermented in barrels (228 l and 440 l), and foudre (2000 l and 700 l) without added yeasts.
ANALYSIS
Alcohol: 12,5%
pH: 3,22
Total Acidity : 6,6g/l Volatile Acidity: 0,36 g/l Residual Sugar: 0,6 g/l
OTHER NOTES
It was the potential to age in the bottle. Store the bottles lying down in a cool place. Consume at a temperature of 12oC.
MATURATION: 10 months in the same vats where it fermented. Bottled in July 2023, and maturing in the bottle ever since.
This wine is born at an altitude 500 meters on granite soils with some clay. There are 3 parcels of Encruzado, two of wich are more clayey and one is more granite. These low –productive vineyards are around 35 years old and this wine expresses its “terroir”: fresh, elegant and complex.
The 2022 vintage was dry and hot. The high temperature ranges of the region and the clay in the soils allowed a lot of freshness and acidity to be preserved in these grapes, which were harvested and selected manually at the beginning of September.
Nuno Mira do Ó is a one-man viticulture and enology powerhouse. A deep-thinking, well-traveled, generous person totally focused on expressing the great terroir of his native country. His peers look his way for guidance because his experience bringing forth wines of place covers almost every major wine region in Portugal. He launched his eponymous brand in the Dão wine region with Druida Encruzado. The wine is named for the ancient Celtic druids whose connection to the earth and plants drove their quest to achieve spiritual equilibrium through the balance of nature. As an enologist and viticulturist, Nuno is in constant search for balance between the soil, the climate, and the vines.
Mira do Ó wines seek to attain perfect sensory balance with the utmost respect for nature. This is a pursuit driven by passion and a desire to share wines filled with freshness, elegance, and aging potential. These wines are handcrafted in the Dão from indigenous varietals with vineyards in granite soil sitting above 500 meters of elevation to capture the region’s cool climate.
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