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: direct-press red-grape purity
Palate: robust frame, delicate bead, lees-built texture
A blanc de noirs pressed straight off Touriga Nacional and Tinta Roriz, robust and delicate at once after a year on fine lees.
What it pairs with
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Oysters and lemon
Direct-pressed red grapes give a sparkling wine with the acidity raw shellfish needs. -
Roast chicken
Twelve months on lees give it the body to sit with a whole roast bird. -
Salt cod fritters
The bead cuts fried batter, the structure handles the salt.
Facts
- Producer
- Quinta dos Monteirinhos · visiting guide
- Grapes
- Touriga Nacional (80%), Tinta Roriz (20%)
- Classification
- DOC Dão
- Oak
- Second fermentation by the traditional method with twelve months on fine lees
- Drinking window
- 1-8 from vintage
Frequently asked about Quinta dos Monteirinhos Blanc de Noirs
How is Quinta dos Monteirinhos Blanc de Noirs made?
The must ferments at 15C after direct pressing of the red grapes, and the second fermentation follows the champenoise method with free yeasts and twelve months on fine lees.
What grapes are in Quinta dos Monteirinhos Blanc de Noirs?
Touriga Nacional 80 percent and Tinta Roriz 20, both red varieties pressed white.
What does Quinta dos Monteirinhos Blanc de Noirs taste like?
The estate calls it an excellent blanc de noirs, robust and at the same time delicate, built on the purity of directly pressed red fruit and a year of lees ageing.
Tags
Taste it where it is made: tours and tastings in Dão