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 10 years from vintage.
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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, spice, vanilla
Palate: generous red fruit, youthful astringency, oak-framed structure
The estate's five-grape house red: wild blackcurrant and pine leaves over a vanilla note from the oak, generous and still astringent in youth.
What it pairs with
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Chanfana de cabra
The slow-braised goat's iron and red-wine sauce meet the wine's blackcurrant fruit head on, and the tannin scrubs the fat. -
Grilled chouriço
Smoke and paprika find the pine-and-spice register in the nose. -
Queijo Serra da Estrela curado
The aged, harder version of the local ewe's cheese has the salt to soften the young tannin.
Facts
- Producer
- Quinta dos Roques · visiting guide
- Grapes
- Touriga Nacional (50%), Alfrocheiro (20%), Jaen (15%), Tinta Roriz (10%), Tinto Cão (5%)
- Classification
- DOC Dão
- Oak
- Touriga Nacional and Tinto Cão components aged six months in used 225 litre French oak; the rest stays in stainless steel
- ABV
- 12.9%
- Drinking window
- 1-10 from vintage
Frequently asked about Quinta dos Roques Tinto
What does Quinta dos Roques Tinto taste like?
Ruby coloured with an intense fruit bouquet of wild blackcurrant, pine leaves and spice, plus a vanilla note from the barrel. The palate is generous and medium bodied with the astringency of youth and fresh acidity.
When should I drink Quinta dos Roques Tinto?
It is made to be drunk young but the estate expects it to gain over a decade in bottle. Serve it at 16C, per the producer's technical sheet.
What grapes are in Quinta dos Roques Tinto?
Touriga Nacional 50 percent, Alfrocheiro 20, Jaen 15, Tinta Roriz 10 and Tinto Cão 5, all grown on the estate at Abrunhosa do Mato.
Tags
Taste it where it is made: tours and tastings in Dão