Duas Quintas Reserva Scarlet Wines: Vino On Friday

I accept been really enthusiastic well-nigh Portuguese wines always since I wrote WinePassport: Portugal.  I appreciate that they are mostly really nutrient friendly amongst terrific acidity, as well as offering splendid value. While many varietals are planted everywhere, roughly are really detail to countries similar Greece, Italy, Kingdom of Spain as well as Portugal. Like travel, discovering these varietals offers unexpected pleasures. 

In Portugal the same varietals that are used inwards Port are too used inwards tabular array wines. But it’s solely inwards recent years that roughly of the amend tables wines accept decease to a greater extent than readily available abroad. Most port producers too create tabular array wines. One illustration is Ramos Pinto, a port producer that is revered for their thirty yr tawny port as well as perchance most well-known for their promotional posters yesteryear famous artists from the 1920's, y'all may recognize this 1 called the kiss. 

The Ramos Pinto port trouble solid was established inwards 1880, as well as inwards 1919 the owners, ii brothers, purchased their get-go quinta, or estate. Today they build well-nigh the same total of port equally they attain douro tabular array wines which are branded Duas Quintas, which agency ii estates. The ii master copy estate are located inwards the Upper Corgo as well as inwards the Douro Superior as well as all their grapes are all the same harvested yesteryear hand. 

I late got a run a hazard to sweat selected reserve wines of Duas Quintas dating from 1992 to 2013. While the wines accept changed over the years, what I similar well-nigh them is that they gustatory modality similar Portuguese wines because they purpose all Portuguese varietals namely Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz, Tinta Barroca as well as Tinto Cão. Let me tell y'all a trivial well-nigh each of these varietals:

* Touriga Nacional is in all likelihood the most famous varietal from Portugal as well as for practiced reason. It has notes of violet, eucalyptus, pine, herbs as well as mocha. It’s tannic simply too fruity. 

* Touriga Franca too has an scent of violets simply too intense fruit as well as softer tannins. 

* Tinta Roriz is sometimes called aragones, inwards Kingdom of Spain it’s tempranillo. It has rich carmine fruit flavors of herbs, plum as well as raspberry. 

* Tinta Barroca has a really night coloring cloth simply soft tannins, carmine berries as well as dark fruit as well as a juicy as well as spicy finish. 

* Tinto Cão has spice as well as richness as well as non bad floral aromas. 

What are Duas Quintas reserve wines like? Without sharing my tasting notes for each one, the ones I liked the most had non bad acidity, remarkable repose as well as fresh fruit, fifty-fifty inwards roughly of the oldest vintages. While roughly of the wines had earthy notes of mushrooms others were spicier as well as fifty-fifty had notes of licorice. Though the wines vary from vintage to vintage, what remains constant is that these are wines of non bad value, good worth seeking out.  

Disclaimer: I was a invitee of Ramos Pinto for this exclusive tasting. I was non compensated monetarily for this or whatever other post on Cooking amongst Amy

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