Arribas Wine – Raiola

Raiola by is a natural wine made in Douro with a field blend of grapes.

The producer Arribas Wine states that Raiola is a special blend from the 2019 vintage year. It began as a fermentation of
solely red grapes, from 4 different old vineyards, that were whole bunch foot trodden
in a traditional stone lagar and fermented/macerated for 4 days. After that time, the
grapes were pressed and the wine racked into 6 used franch and austrian oak barrels
and 1 new french oak barrel, where it fermented and aged for 10 months. After those
10 months, those 7 barrels were blended with 4 barrels of pressed wine that originated
from the vinification of two old vineyards (with a field blend similar to that of Saroto
Tinto, a mixture of red and white grapes). The final blend brought together the intensity
and structure of the red grapes vinified on their own with the elegance, freshness and
lightness of the natural field blend of the old vineyards of the Arribas area.