Deep ruby, purple rim. Ripe and sweet black fruits, spicy oak, a little earthiness and dark chocolate notes. Sweet fruity taste, velvety and warm in the mid-palate. The soft finish is very long. LBVs are not meant for aging so it is ready to drink.
This wine comes from Crasto's Douro Superior estate, Quinta da Cabreira, where the inland intensity and roasting heat of the Douro is at its highest potency. This is a field blend of old vine Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz and the intriguing Sousão, with a 1 year stint in French oak. The wood is felt, but matches the potency of the sun-drenched fruit. Leather, dried cherry, black plum, raspberry, resinous scrubby herbs and medicinal cassis is drawn slowly along a black pepper, schistous-textured palate. Young and tight still, this relaxes with a decant, and will be even more appreciated with 5+ years in the bottle.
Made from native Portuguese varietals. Clear pale gold. Fairly vigorous nose of apples and pears with a splash of lime. Medium-bodied, and amply fruity (more apples and a wedge of lemon) but in a reserved way with crisp acidity and a hint of bitterness on a long finish. A food wine, its palate-refreshing acidity slices nicely through a hearty fish chowder. Good value. Drink up.
Dense purple-black in colour with a spicy nose of brambleberries and blackcurrants. Full-bodied with sweet, dark chocolate and black-fruit flavours. Firmly structured and still tight. Will reward patient cellaring for 20 years but enjoyable for senior citizens in 5 years.
This winery’s red all-natural wine made using amphorae, is a blend of 4 grapes: Aragonez (Tempranillo), Trincadera and 2 very rare indigenous varieties (Moreto and Tinta Grossa). Aged on the skins for 6 months, it is a little shy on the nose, but delivers clean red cherry and plum fruit in a medium-weight package with rounded tannins and good overall balance.
Youthful purple in the glass, showing lightly perfumed fleshy dark fruit with a touch of fine spice. Full-flavoured and rounded on the palate with elegant berry and dark cherry character, approachable tannins and not overly aggressive acidity. A good example of Touriga Nacional quality as a single grape variety.
Scents of cherry with a whiff of herb, vanilla and a pinch of spice introduce lightly sweet dark fruit with rounded structure, grippy but approachable tannins and a well-balanced, harmonious finish.