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 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 in the header is our own.
In the glass
Aroma: violets, black spice, wet granite
Palate: natural acidity, surprising complexity, altitude tension
Violets in the nose with the black spice and quartz-like wet granite of altitude, carried by the variety's natural acidity.
What it pairs with
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Roast lamb
Firm tannin and natural acidity handle a fatty roast without going flat. -
Hare or venison
Black spice and granite notes suit dark game. -
Aged Serra da Estrela
The region's strongest cheese meets its most structured red.
Facts
- Producer
- Quinta da Taboadella · visiting guide
- Grapes
- Touriga Nacional (100%)
- Classification
- DOC Dão Reserva
- Drinking window
- 4-18 from vintage
Frequently asked about Taboadella Reserva Touriga Nacional
What does Taboadella Reserva Touriga Nacional taste like?
The estate writes of natural acidity and a terroir that lets you detect the violets that populate the aroma, complemented by the altitude notes of black spice and the quartz-like smell of wet granite, in a complexity it calls surprising.
What grapes are in Taboadella Reserva Touriga Nacional?
One hundred percent Touriga Nacional, which the estate describes as the international icon of Portuguese varieties with its origin in the region where it best expresses itself.
What classification does Taboadella Reserva Touriga Nacional have?
DOC Dão at Reserva level, from a monovarietal parcel where the estate says the variety shines on its own.
Tags
Taste it where it is made: tours and tastings in Dão