Touriga Nacional, Tinto Cao and Tinta Roriz (aka Tempranillo) – blending these varieties is a centuries-old tradition in the most famous Portugal wine region – the Douro Valley. Although four years old this wine is still youthful fresh and firm. Plums, blackberries and layers of spice re supported by a very good acidity and significant but elegant tannins. Serious wine to drink with food will benefit from a couple of hours of decanting.
2016 Topper’s Mountain Touriga & Tintas
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Varieties
Touriga Nacional, Tinto Cao and Tinta Roriz (aka Tempranillo) – blending these varieties is a centuries-old tradition in the most famous Portugal wine region – the Douro Valley. Grapes were destemmed and put into open fermenter to undergo spontaneous fermentation followed by 16 months of ageing in old oak barrels.
Tasting Notes
Although four years old this wine is still youthful fresh and firm. Plums, blackberries and layers of spice re supported by a very good acidity and significant but elegant tannins. Serious wine to drink with food will benefit from a couple of hours of decanting.
Details
Region: New England
Variety: Touriga Nacional, Tinto Cao and Tinta Roriz (Tempranillo)
Vintage: 2016
Alcohol content: 14.0%
RS: 0.46 g/l
TA: 5.8 g/l
pH: 3.8
Bottle size: 750ml
Cellaring: to 2030
Production: 1380 bottles produced
Expert Reviews
95 points – Nick Butler, The Real Review, Dec 2019
Brick-red colour with tawny edges. Ripe blackberries, dried violets, sour cherries and all manner of herbs – a complex and vivacious nose. Remarkably juicy and fresh when sipped, blackberry compote with red-berry acidity. Tannins are soft and that acidity is crunchy and demanding another sip. A very enjoyable drink.
92 points – Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front, March 2020
Lots of character here. In fact it’s a very good wine full stop. Leathery, perfumed, ripped with tannin, glossy in some ways, resinous even, but savoury at heart. Fruit, graphite, cloves, something sweet and musky, something sour and dry. Many different things. There’s a huge swerve of tannin to the finish it’s part of the wine’s shtick, and charm.
92 points – James Halliday, Wine Companion, Aug 2019
Virtually identical to the ’18, except crushed and destemmed, open-fermented and matured for 16 months in used French oak. The colour is deeper and slightly developed (it is 2 years older); the wine is full-bodied, more focused, but with a similar thatch of tannins.
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