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- Country: Portugal
- Wine Region: Douro
- Alc.: 14%
Quinta Vale Dona Maria is an opulent red wine from the Douro Region. Loaded with intense aromas of ripe black fruits, presents excellent wood notes, balsamic aromas, notes of black chocolate, dried tobacco leaf and spices. It is an imposing red wine, with fruity and fleshy tannins along with an extraordinary acidity and a great minerality.
Winemaking:
Quinta Vale Dona Maria is a red wine, produced from the old vines with more than 60 years old, of the Quinta Vale Dona Maria, in the Douro region. After grapes being foot trodding in granitic Lagares, the wine was fermented for 10 days in contact of the skins and the stalks, at controlled temperatures. The wine was then transferred for new's French oak barrels (75% of the batch) and for 1-year-old used's French oak barrels (25%of the batch), where it stayed for 21 months, prior to being blended and bottled.
Grape Varieties:
Old Vines of Touriga Franca, Touriga Nacional, Tinta Roriz, Tinto Cão, Tinta Francisca, Malvasia Preta, Tinta Francisca, Bastardinho, Rufete, Tinta Amarela, Tinta Francisca, Sousão.
Tasting Notes:
Quinta Vale Dona Maria is a very concentrated red wine from the Douro Valley, full of aromatic intensity alongside a great freshness and minerality. It presents great notes of the evolution of the aging in wood such as notes of vanilla, spices, black pepper, clove, leaves of dry tobacco all in harmony with the residual sugars of the fantástic concentration of the fruits.
Store and Serve Advice:
Store in a cool place (15ºC). Serve at 16ºC-18ºC.
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