Winemaker Notes
Very concentrated aromas, with balsamic notes of oak, ripe red fruits and violets. The palate is extremely balanced, with a lot of red fruit concentration, containing ripe and round tannins and a long and fresh finish.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The floral, expressive, exuberant and perfumed 2021 Touriga Nacional expresses the floral quality of the grape and is a classical bottling coming from a property they rented in Pocinho (close to Vale Meão) planted with 30-year-old vines. They used around 25% new barrels, and the rest were used. It has fruit and concentration, lots of varietal character, keeping freshness and balance, with fine tannins. This is a wine that is very easy to like and understand.
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Wine Enthusiast
Aged for 16 months in wood, the wine is rich with perfumed aromas and a polished texture. It is elegant, its black-fruit flavors balanced with tannins. The wine is rich and still firm. Drink from 2026.
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Wine Spectator
A toasty red, with smoke and espresso notes underscoring flavors of baked black cherry and black currant, plus mocha, macchia, mineral and black licorice accents. Powerful tannins are enmeshed in the plush texture, and the expressive profile lingers on the finish.
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.
The home of Port—perhaps the most internationally acclaimed beverage—the Douro region of Portugal is one of the world’s oldest delimited wine regions, established in 1756. The vineyards of the Douro, set on the slopes surrounding the Douro River (known as the Duero in Spain), are incredibly steep, necessitating the use of terracing and thus, manual vineyard management as well as harvesting. The Douro's best sites, rare outcroppings of Cambrian schist, are reserved for vineyards that yield high quality Port.
While more than 100 indigenous varieties are approved for wine production in the Douro, there are five primary grapes that make up most Port and the region's excellent, though less known, red table wines. Touriga Nacional is the finest of these, prized for its deep color, tannins and floral aromatics. Tinta Roriz (Spain's Tempranillo) adds bright acidity and red fruit flavors. Touriga Franca shows great persistence of fruit and Tinta Barroca helps round out the blend with its supple texture. Tinta Cão, a fine but low-yielding variety, is now rarely planted but still highly valued for its ability to produce excellent, complex wines.
White wines, generally crisp, mineral-driven blends of Arinto, Viosinho, Gouveio, Malvasia Fina and an assortment of other rare but local varieties, are produced in small quantities but worth noting.
With hot summers and cool, wet winters, the Duoro has a maritime climate.