Quinta dos Carvalhais Dão Touriga Nacional 2022
£21.45
The wine
Ruby red, with intense ripe blackberry and black cherry married to floral and herbal notes. Elegant and balanced.
Touriga Nacional is Portugal most prized red grape, better known as a port variety but increasingly bottled dry. It gives deep colour, firm tannin and a distinctive violet perfume. The Dão is a granite plateau ringed by mountains that shelter it from both Atlantic rain and continental heat, and its wines are the most elegant and structured in Portugal, often compared to Burgundy in shape if not in flavour.
The producer
Quinta dos Carvalhais
View all Quinta dos Carvalhais winesQuinta dos Carvalhais is Sogrape flagship estate in the Dão, a mountainous, granite-soiled region regarded by many as the source of Portugal most elegant and age-worthy wines. The quinta has been central to the modern renaissance of Dão.
Set on high, cool granite slopes ringed by mountains, the vineyards enjoy warm days and cold nights that yield wines of freshness, perfume and structure. Native grapes lead the way, farmed with care and vinified to express site and variety.
The range is a showcase of Dão at every level, from the mineral Encruzado and structured Touriga Nacional to the barrel-aged Tinto and Branco Reservas, the rare multi-vintage Branco Especial and the iconic Unico, made only in the finest years.
Elegant, structured and built to age, Quinta dos Carvalhais crafts some of Portugal most refined wines, the definitive expression of granite Dão.
