Blend of 50% Castellão, 25% Aragonez, and 25% Touriga National.
Deeply pitched in color and fruit with inky purple robe. Nose is all of crushed fruits, pithy blackberry, medicinal blueberry and sweet/tart/astringent plum. Hearty texture has abundant acidity, medium plus body and medium plus tannin that could use some time in bottle to tame or a hearth dish to pair with it now.
Blend of 50% Castellão, 25% Aragonez, and 25% Touriga National.
Deeply pitched in color and fruit with inky purple robe. Nose is all of crushed fruits, pithy blackberry, medicinal blueberry and sweet/tart/astringent plum. Hearty texture has abundant acidity, medium plus body and medium plus tannin that could use some time in bottle to tame or a hearth dish to pair with it now.
Dec 23rd, 2021
Very impressed with this inexpensive red. Nose is lively and youthful, with bright, crunchy berries, a dark floral note, and intensely stony minerality. In the mouth, it’s soft-textured, got zesty acidity, and bright, juicy fruit. A bit of tannin frames it nicely. Well done. (I had opened a bottle a few weeks ago, but it was corked so I didn’t rate it.)
Very impressed with this inexpensive red. Nose is lively and youthful, with bright, crunchy berries, a dark floral note, and intensely stony minerality. In the mouth, it’s soft-textured, got zesty acidity, and bright, juicy fruit. A bit of tannin frames it nicely. Well done. (I had opened a bottle a few weeks ago, but it was corked so I didn’t rate it.)
Dec 9th, 2021
Lisboa, Portugal
