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 4 to 20 years from vintage.
vintage4 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: ripe plum, black cherry, wild raspberry, black truffle, dark rose
Palate: soft tannins, vibrant acidity, perfectly integrated wood
Complex and deep, with ripe plum, black cherry and wild raspberry running into black truffle and dark roses, then soft tannins and vibrant acidity over a mineral finish.
What it pairs with
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Wild boar with chestnuts
The truffle and dark-rose register in the nose is built for autumn game. -
Duck magret with berry sauce
Wild raspberry in the wine picks up a fruit-based sauce without clashing. -
Beef Wellington
Soft tannins and integrated wood suit pastry-wrapped beef with mushroom duxelles.
Facts
- Producer
- Quinta da Falorca · visiting guide
- Grapes
- Touriga Nacional, Tinta Roriz, Rufete
- Classification
- DOC Dão
- Oak
- Low-temperature fermentation, with 20 percent of the lot aged 18 months in new 225 litre French oak
- ABV
- 14.0%
- Drinking window
- 4-20 from vintage
Frequently asked about Quinta da Falorca Noblesse Oblige
How much new oak does Quinta da Falorca Noblesse Oblige see?
Twenty percent of the lot spends eighteen months in new 225 litre French oak barrels; the rest stays out of new wood.
What is in the blend?
Touriga Nacional, Tinta Roriz and Rufete, hand-picked into 18 kilogram boxes and fermented at low temperature.
Tags
Taste it where it is made: tours and tastings in Dão