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 4 to 18 years from vintage.
vintage4 yrs18 yrs20 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: sour cherry, rose petal, black pepper, wet stone
Palate: juicy red cherry, cranberry, peppery spice
The extended-ageing Reserva off the oldest Saes plantings: sour cherry, rose petal and black pepper leaping out of the glass, juicy on the palate with a mineral beam.
What it pairs with
- Cabidela de coelho Rabbit in its own sauce is a Beira staple and the wine's pepper and acidity keep it lively.
- Beef short rib braised in red wine Eighteen months in barrel gives enough frame for a long-braised cut.
- Aged Serra da Estrela cheese The wet-stone minerality is a foil for the region's rich ewe's milk cheese.
With cheese
Queijo Serra da Estrela
Our pick Serra da Estrela's buttery paste wants a red that lifts it. A medium-bodied Dão red blend, with tannin no higher than medium and acidity to cut through the cream, refreshes the palate without scraping against the cheese.
Queijo Serra da Estrela Velho
Our pick Velho is strong, salty and lightly peppery, with a persistent aroma. A Dão Reserva or Grande Reserva red blend, held back for longer ageing before release, has the depth to meet it, and the aged ewe's milk fat softens the wine's tannin.
Facts
- Producer
- Quinta de Saes · visiting guide
- Grapes
- Touriga Nacional (10%), Alfrocheiro (10%), Jaen (10%)
- Classification
- Dão Reserva
- Oak
- Ten day cold-soak maceration and wild-yeast ferment in stainless vats, 18 months in used 225 litre French oak, then six months in bottle before release
- ABV
- 13.0%
- Drinking window
- 4-18 from vintage
Frequently asked about Quinta de Saes Estágio Prolongado Reserva
What does Estágio Prolongado mean on the Quinta de Saes label?
It signals the extended ageing this Reserva gets: eighteen months in used 225 litre French oak followed by a further six months in bottle before the wine is released.
Which vines go into Quinta de Saes Estágio Prolongado Reserva?
The oldest plantings on the estate, set in 1990 at 500 metres on granite with clay and sand, with Touriga Nacional, Alfrocheiro and Jaen named in the blend.
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