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 1 to 8 years from vintage.
vintage1 yrs8 yrs10 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: elderflower, pear, apple, lemon, fennel, passion fruit, honey
Palate: vibrant attack, fresh core, full and complex
Varietal Encruzado from Silgueiros with only a quarter in barrel: elderflower and pear over lemon, fennel and passion fruit, vibrant and full on the palate.
What it pairs with
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Bacalhau com broa
The honeyed weight from the barrel fraction stands up to cornbread crust and olive oil. -
Prawn and coriander açorda
Fennel and passion fruit in the nose meet the coriander in the dish. -
Roast pork with apple
Apple and pear notes make this a rare white that can take a white-meat roast.
Facts
- Producer
- Quinta do Perdigão · visiting guide
- Grapes
- Encruzado (100%)
- Classification
- DOC Dão
- Oak
- A quarter of the lot four months in French oak, half of that Burgundy shape and half Bordeaux and Cognac casks
- ABV
- 13.0%
- Drinking window
- 1-8 from vintage
Frequently asked about Quinta do Perdigão Encruzado
How much oak does Quinta do Perdigão Encruzado see?
Twenty-five percent of the wine spends four months in French oak, split evenly between Burgundy barrels and Bordeaux and Cognac casks.
What does Quinta do Perdigão Encruzado smell like?
The estate lists elderflower, fruity pear, apple, lemon, fennel, passion fruit and honey, and calls the palate vibrant, fresh, complex and full.
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