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...
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Structure
Drinking window
Best 2 to 10 years from vintage.
vintage2 yrs10 yrs12 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 above is our own.
In the glass
Aroma: complex layering, orange, light smoke
Palate: green apple, tea leaf, fine austere texture
Lemon yellow varietal Encruzado from a single Quinta do Paço parcel: complex on the nose with orange and a light smoke, green apple and tea on a fine, austere palate.
What it pairs with
- Smoked trout salad The light smoke the critics find in this wine makes smoked river fish the obvious partner.
- Roast chicken with lemon The orange and green apple register works with citrus-roasted poultry.
- Steamed clams Austere texture and high acidity suit shellfish cooked simply.
With cheese
Queijo Serra da Estrela
Our pick Serra da Estrela's paste is buttery, unctuous and only slightly acidulous. A dry Encruzado white has the acidity to cut that cream and enough texture of its own to match the cheese's soft, rich body.
Queijo Serra da Estrela Velho
Our pick Velho is strong, lightly peppery and salty. A Reserva, Grande Reserva or oak-aged Encruzado has the depth from age, lees or wood to meet it, and its acidity cuts through the aged fat while the salt sets off the fruit.
Facts
- Producer
- Casa Américo Quinta do Paço · visiting guide
- Grapes
- Encruzado (100%)
- Classification
- DOC Dão
- Oak
- Three months in French oak barrels, with part of the wine barrel-fermented
- Drinking window
- 2-10 from vintage
Frequently asked about Vinha de Púcaros Encruzado
Is Vinha de Púcaros Encruzado oaked?
Partly. Some of the wine ferments in barrel and the whole spends three months in French oak, which is where the light smoked note comes from.
Does it age?
Luís Lopes of Grandes Escolhas found the 2020 had gained aromatic intensity with time, showing orange and green apple, and called it attractive and at the point for drinking.
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