Hassle Free Returns SSL Secure Card Transaction
No products
Prices are tax included
Product successfully added to your shopping cart
There are 0 items in your cart. There is 1 item in your cart.
- Country: Portugal
- Wine Region: Alentejo
- Alc.: 14%
Júlio B. Bastos Alicante Bouschet is a red wine of enormous aromatic concentration and density from the Alentejo wine region. It presents a closed purple colour, with intense aromas of wild fruits, ripe black fruits, cherries and figs, spices and balsamic nuances. It is a red wine with juicy and fleshy tannins and freshly polished acidity.
Winemaking:
Júlio B. Bastos Alicante Bouschet is a red wine produced with red grapes of Alicante Bouschet, planted in the Alentejo wine region. The fermentation process took place in marble's Lagares, at a controlled temperature. After the fermentation process, the wine was transferred to French oak barrels, where it stayed, for 14 months, in contact with lees, prior to being bottled.
Grape Varieties:
Alicante Bouschet.
Tasting Notes:
Júlio B. Bastos Alicante Bouschet is a complex red wine with an enormous aromatic quality. It presents in its aromatic bouquet pure aromas of Chinese ink, and liquorice, exhibiting delicious flavours of wild fruits, ripe black fruits, vanilla notes and delicious balsamic nuances. It is a red wine with a wide aromatic spectrum, dense, and velvety, with ripe and round tannins and sublime acidity.
Store and Serve Advice:
Store at a temperature of 18°C. Serve at a temperature between 15ºC and 16ºC.
You May Also Like this Red Wines
Indie Xisto Douro Red Wine 75cl
02871202341Indie is a red wine from shale soils of the Douro wine region, from vines planted more than 70 years ago. It is a rich and opulent red wine, concentrated and complex. It presents intense notes of ripe black fruits, notes of dry tobacco leaf and dried plums. It is a very elegant, exuberant, mineral red wine that ends with a very well designed acidity.
39,75 €- 84 pts : Wine Spectator
Adega de Borba Premium Red Wine 75cl
00091201203Adega de Borba Premium is an opulent and rich red wine from the Alentejo region, of an exuberant elegance, with notes of fine fragrances of mint and basil and full of aromas of ripe black fruits. It features very round and soft tannins, great aromatic intensity and a delicious acidity.
18,50 € - 95 pts : Robert Parker
Quinta da Falorca Garrafeira Red Wine 75cl
00821200511Deep violet colour. Complex aromas and rich in ripe red fruits combined with notes of resin and spices. Sturdy structure, well balanced with a lively acidity, firm and elegant tannins wrapped in ripe fruits. Persistent aftertaste, full of intensity.
98,50 € - 92 pts : Robert Parker
Julian Reynolds Grande Reserva Red Wine 75cl
01731201447Julian Reynolds Grande Reserva is a robust, deeply dense red wine that features an intensely aromatic and complex bouquet from the Alentejo Region. Featuring a dark red colour, it's characterized by an intense and markedly juicy core, filled by full of aromas of wild black fruits, austere and imposing tannins, and very poised acidity.
98,50 € - 92 pts : Robert Parker
Esporão Private Selection Red Wine 75cl
00101201301Esporão Private Selection is a full-bodied and concentrated red wine from the Alentejo region, dominated by fragrant and intensely fruity tannins. It has aromas of ripe red fruits, balsamic notes, and spices. It is an extremely polished wine, elegant and with a very balanced acidity.
78,50 € -
Caves Velhas Garrafeira Red Wine 75cl
01171200393Caves Velhas Garrafeira is an elegant and rich red wine that displays a bouquet of aromas of ripe forest fruits with subtle notes of cedar and pine needles. On the palate, it is fruity, with velvety tannins and extraordinary acidity.
24,50 €