Cycling Ecopista do Dão One Way, full-day from Coimbra
After hotel pickup in Coimbra, we take direction to activity start in Viseu. Day dedicated to bicycle touring on an old railway branch that has 130 years of transpor...
Structure
Drinking window
Best 3 to 20 years from vintage.
vintage3 yrs20 yrs22 yrs
Critic scores
No critic score is published for this bottle that we can cite with a reviewer, a vintage and a review year, so none is shown. The rating in the header is our own.
In the glass
Aroma: apricot, hazelnut, soft smoke
Palate: fresh entry, explosive mid-palate, full weight
Golden, from a multi-vintage assembly of old Teixuga vineyard whites aged years in used barrel: apricot, hazelnut and soft smoke, fresh but explosive in the middle.
What it pairs with
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Smoked eel
Soft smoked notes in the wine make smoked fish a natural rather than a risk. -
Roast pheasant
Full weight and hazelnut character can take a small game bird. -
Aged Comté
Hazelnut in the wine and in the cheese are the same note.
Facts
- Producer
- Caminhos Cruzados · visiting guide
- Grapes
- Encruzado, Bical, Cercial, Malvasia Fina
- Classification
- DOC Dão
- Oak
- A solera-style assembly of 2016, 2018 and 2020 harvests aged three to seven years in used French oak with periodic bâtonnage
- ABV
- 14.0%
- Drinking window
- 3-20 from vintage
Frequently asked about Vinhas da Teixuga Branco
Is Vinhas da Teixuga Branco a single vintage?
No. The second edition assembles wines from the 2016, 2018 and 2020 harvests, each aged three to seven years in used French oak barrels with periodic bâtonnage.
What grapes are in it?
Several typical Dão varieties that grow together in the old Teixuga vineyard, rather than a stated modern blend.
Tags
Taste it where it is made: tours and tastings in Dão