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
Latest scored vintage 2024: best 2025 to 2029.
vintage1 yrs5 yrs8 yrs
Critic scores
| Critic | Vintage | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Wine Anorak reviewed 2026 | 2024 | 91/100 |
Scores as published by each critic for the vintage shown.
In the glass
Palate: vivid cherry, unexpected concentration, some depth
A revival of palhete, roughly a fifth white grapes co-fermented with the reds: pale but concentrated, vivid cherry with more depth than the colour suggests.
What it pairs with
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Sardinha assada
A pale co-fermented red served cool is the traditional Portuguese answer to grilled sardines. -
Tomato and bread soup
Açorda de tomate wants a light, high-acid red rather than a structured one. -
Roast chicken piri piri
Low tannin and bright cherry survive chilli where a tannic red would not.
Facts
- Producer
- Quinta de Saes · visiting guide
- Grapes
- Jaen, Tinta Roriz, Encruzado
- Classification
- DOC Dão
- Oak
- Red and white grapes co-fermented together in the old palhete manner, raised without new oak
- ABV
- 12.5%
- Drinking window
- 1-5 from vintage
Frequently asked about Quinta de Saes Tobias Palhete
What is a palhete?
An old Portuguese style in which white grapes are co-fermented with red ones, giving a pale, light red. Quinta de Saes uses about twenty percent white grapes in its Tobias Palhete.
How should Quinta de Saes Tobias Palhete be served?
Lightly chilled, as a summer red. Jamie Goode found the 2024 concentrated for the style with vivid cherry fruit and some depth, and scored it 91.
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Taste it where it is made: tours and tastings in Dão