A generous nose of cherry and strawberry fruit with touches of vanilla oak, earth and spice. It’s tasty on the palate with red fruits, smooth tannins and a balanced approach to the cloves, earth and spices.
This wine, the original Ripasso, celebrates its 50th birthday with this vintage. Ripe with plum, raspberry, cherry, violets, tobacco, cocoa, herbs and spice. Fresh acidity and fine-grained tannins round out the package. Ready to drink. Try with a sausage ragu!
Deep and potent, with blackcurrant, dusky violets, cassis filling the compact, potent frame. Tar, tobacco, leather coat the base, downy and fleshy, framed with a fiercely thick wall of tannins. Intense through the sticky, lingering finish. This is Touriga Nacional, Tinta Roriz and Alfrocheiro from Terras de Azurara on the granitic soils of the Dao. After a stainless ferment, this spent ten months in French oak. Tight and unyielding now in youth, this serious, big wine benefits from decanting and pairing with boar or lamb — and more so from cellaring.
Love this blend of Cab and Shiraz. An inviting nose of plums, pepper, dark fruits, baking spices, pepper, blackberry jam and vanilla toast. It’s fleshy on the palate with a core of blackberry-cherry fruit and nice cocoa-liquorice highlights. Perfect with grilled steak.
Exudes ripe fleshy red fruit scents with subtle earthiness, cinnamon and a trace of green herb. Developed raspberry and red currant themes play through on the palate with a splash of milk chocolate, delivered in a firmly structured, full-bodied package.
This sweet and soft Ruby is a blend of numerous lots of Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz, Tinta Amarela, Tinta Barroca and Tinto Cão, aged in cask for 5 years. Dense and ripe, with sweet cherry jam, sugarplums, dark maple syrup and gingersnap spicing. Tannins are sticky and the finish is hot. This young port is best partnered with dark chocolate clad fruits or rich, boozy fruitcake.
This blend of Négrette, Syrah and Gamay shows a nice dark pink colour. Light nose of strawberry and watermelon. Intense fruity taste; the mellow finish is a bit warm on the tongue. Drink now, well cooled.