Winemaker Notes
This is a a rich, opulent red wine with great aromatic intensity. It is exuberant, with soft balsamic notes, vanilla and spices nuances, presenting wild red fruit aromas and very elegant acidity and structure.
Blend: 100% Touriga Nacional
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2018 Carrocel (Quinta da Pellada) is Castro's upper-level Touriga Nacional, the old clones from Talhão 5 in the Quinta da Pellada vineyard. It was aged for 28 months in third and fourth-use French oak and comes in at 13.4% alcohol. This will be released in October. The border looks a bit golden, but for the moment, Castro has stopped the Golden Carrocel.
Gaining great popularity for its bold but beautifully aromatic dry red wines, Touriga Nacional is the noblest variety in Port wine. Most likely originating from the Dão region, today it grows throughout the Douro Valley as well. Somm Secret—As many as 80 grape varieties can be used to make Port wine, each contributing something unique to the resulting blend. Touriga Nacional adds great color, tannins and aromatics.
Producing some of the country’s most dignified and mineral-driven red wines, Dão is positioned in north central Portugal where granite mountains surround and shelter the region from any Atlantic maritime influence. Summers are long and warm; winters see abundant rainfall.
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