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 15 years from vintage.
vintage3 yrs15 yrs17 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: aromatic richness, Touriga-led lift
Palate: elegance, freshness, terroir grip
Touriga Nacional dominant and drawn from a fifty-year-old granite plot and a younger clay one: elegance, freshness and aromatic richness.
What it pairs with
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Goatling or lamb
The estate names goatling and lamb for this bottling. -
Stewed or oven-cooked veal
The producer lists veal cooked slowly or in the oven. -
Strong cheeses and spicy dishes
The estate recommends both, and the wine's freshness carries the heat.
Facts
- Producer
- Casa de Mouraz · visiting guide
- Grapes
- Touriga Nacional (70%), Jaen, Baga, Alfrocheiro, Água Santa, Trincadeira
- Classification
- DOC Dão
- Oak
- Natural fermentation and long maceration, then half the wine twelve months in used French oak
- ABV
- 13.5%
- Production
- 10,000 bottles
- Drinking window
- 3-15 from vintage
Frequently asked about Casa de Mouraz Private Selection
What does Casa de Mouraz Private Selection taste like?
The estate lists elegance, freshness and terroir as its features, a blend with a predominance of the region's noblest variety, and guarantees complexity, aromatic richness and longevity.
What grapes are in Casa de Mouraz Private Selection?
Touriga Nacional at 70 percent with Jaen, Baga, Alfrocheiro, Água Santa, Trincadeira and others making up the remaining 30.
Where is Casa de Mouraz Private Selection made?
From two vineyards, one fifty years old on granite and a younger one dominated by Touriga Nacional on clay, a soil the estate notes is rare in the Dão.
Tags
Taste it where it is made: tours and tastings in Dão