Poças Júnior
In 1918, a few months before the Armistice, Manoel Domingues Poças Júnior, who had been born in the heart of the Port Wine hustle and bustle, decided to establish his own company. Manoel Poças was 30 years old and he had some experience in this business. With his uncle, he created a company to sell grape spirits to large Port Wine shippers. Soon afterwards he opened a head office in Vila Nova de Gaia, where they remain to this day. Today, with three quintas in the best winemaking areas of the Douro Demarcated Region, Poças ensures its total control over the quality of its wines and the family is more involved than ever before.
Tasting Notes
Golden yellow in colour with aromas of yellow fruit, white flowers and honey. The palate is unctuous, showing an unusual elegance with a persistent and harmonious finish.
Food Matches
Ideally suited to smoked salmon.
Vinification
Harvest from vines aged between 20 & 40 years, in soils transition between schist and granite. Grapes selection in the field and harvested manually. Whole cluster pressing, fermentation in new French oak cask under controlled temperature. Aged in old French oak casks with 300 litres, with bâtonnage for 18 months, followed by further 18 months in the bottle. Bottled in 2021.