Quinta Vale Dona Maria Vinha do Rio 2017 Tinto
€ 129.00
The Quinta Vale Dona Maria Vinha do Rio is a red wine with an intense color, with nuances of violet, purple and dark red. This wine has a complexity and an impressive elegance, that only a vine of 100 years can give. There is a certain mature attitude of this wine, which shows aromas of raspberries, plums and black cherries, combined with fresh notes of stew, no taste too obvious direct, but which appears with an elegant discretion as one drinks wine and it evolves in the glass.
Food pairing
Delicious with fine red meat, roasted and grilled meat dishes
Grapes : Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca
After the harvest, all the grapes are crushed with the feet for one to three days in the traditional "lagares", before being left to ferment in different barrels for seven to ten days, with temperatures ranging from 22° to 27° C. The wine is then transferred for malolactic fermentation into 225 l and 300 l barrels made of new French Allier oak.
Alcohol content
15,5 %
Store & Serve
Serve at 15° - 17°C.
Can be drunk up to 25 years after harvest.
18,5/20 - Grandes Escolhas Tasted: Jan 2020
97/100 - Falstaff Tasted: Oct 2019
95/100 - Wine Spectator Tasted: Jul 2021
95/100 - Wine Enthusiast Tasted: May 2020
For a wine with such a high alcohol content, this is impressively elegant and poised. It comes from a single vineyard, a field blend that has given magnificent dense black fruits and tannins as well as a fresh strata of acidity. The wine is certainly for aging, so wait until 2024 before drinking. Roger Voss
Producer: Quinta Vale Dona Maria
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