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
Palate: typical Dão frame, terroir-driven savour, restrained extraction
Vines of 25 to 60 years on granite at Vila Nova de Tazem, cropped at 4.5 tonnes a hectare and barely extracted: the producer's own description is a very typical Dão reflecting its sense of place.
What it pairs with
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Roast kid with rice
A restrained, savoury Dão red is the local table wine for cabrito. -
Beef cheeks in red wine
Medium tannin and long finish carry a braise without adding weight. -
Serra da Estrela cheese
The estate sits in the Serra, and the wine's acidity is built for the local ewe's cheese.
Facts
- Producer
- Textura Wines · visiting guide
- Grapes
- Touriga Nacional, Jaen, Alfrocheiro, Tinta Pinheira
- Classification
- DOC Dão
- Oak
- Low-intervention red with short pump-overs only in the first days of fermentation and then manual cap management
- Drinking window
- 3-15 from vintage
Frequently asked about Textura da Estrela Tinto
How is Textura da Estrela Tinto extracted?
Very little. The producer does short pump-overs in the first days of fermentation and then manages the cap by hand only.
Where do the grapes come from?
Granite soils at Vila Nova de Tazem in the Serra da Estrela sub-region of the Dão, from vines between 25 and 60 years old yielding 4.5 tonnes per hectare.
Tags
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