Douro

Black cherry, strawberry, blueberry and raspberry appear with spicy oak. The profile is lively, with polished structure, round tannins and fresh persistence. The blend contains thirty-five percent Touriga Nacional, thirty-five percent Touriga Franca, ten percent Sousão, ten percent Tinta Cão and ten percent Tinta Roriz. Vines grow at 140 to 440 metres on schist. Part of the wine matures for eight months in used French oak.

Balsamic notes, fresh red fruit, local scrub and spice accompany flint and broken-stone mineral character. The palate is dense and fresh, with fine tannins, acidity, red cherry and pomegranate. Two vineyards were harvested separately, and sixty percent of the fruit was vinified as whole bunches in old wooden Port vats. Maceration lasted twenty-nine days, followed by eighteen months of ageing.