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 3 to 15 years from vintage.
vintage3 yrs15 yrs17 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: wild blackcurrant, pine leaves, vanilla, chocolate
Palate: dense dark fruit, grippy youth, balanced alcohol and acid
A single-vineyard field blend from the Peach Tree parcel where every variety is interplanted: deep, blackcurrant-and-pine scented, with oak-given vanilla and chocolate.
What it pairs with
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Cabrito assado no forno
Roast kid goat has the fat and the herb crust to meet firm tannin and the wine's pine note. -
Wild boar stew
Game's musk sits with the blackcurrant and cedar side of the wine rather than fighting it. -
Beef rib on the grill
Char and marbling absorb the tannin; the wine's 14.8 percent alcohol handles the fat.
Facts
- Producer
- Quinta dos Roques · visiting guide
- Grapes
- Touriga Nacional (45%), Jaen (15%), Alfrocheiro (15%), Tinta Roriz (10%), Tinto Cão (3%), Rufete (2%)
- Classification
- DOC Dão Reserva
- Oak
- Ten months in 225 litre French oak barrels
- ABV
- 14.8%
- Drinking window
- 3-15 from vintage
Frequently asked about Quinta dos Roques Reserva Tinto
What does Quinta dos Roques Reserva Tinto taste like?
Deep and dark in the glass, with an intense fruit bouquet of wild blackcurrant and pine leaves and vanilla and chocolate from the barrel. Full bodied and generous, with the astringency of youth over a firm balance of alcohol, acidity and tannin.
Where is Quinta dos Roques Reserva Tinto made?
All the fruit comes from the estate's Peach Tree Vineyard at Abrunhosa do Mato, where the varieties are planted together, so the wine is both a single vineyard bottling and a true field blend.
When should I drink Quinta dos Roques Reserva Tinto?
The estate says it drinks well young but gains greatly with a few years in bottle and should be much more complex at ten. Serve at 17C.
Tags
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