Winery - Casa de Santa Vitoria
* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Smoky, toasty aromas follow through with ripe, smooth, wood-influenced fruit. The wine is dark, complex, packed with dusty tannins, ripe stone fruits and a dark core of dryness. Age for another 2–3 years.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
A pear-and pineapple-flavored wine, lifted with bright fresh acidity. There is a smooth texture that comes from ripe fruit. Drink now to enjoy its crispness.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
A seriously wood-aged wine, although one where the fruit is as important as the toast. It’s ripe, packed with mango and sweet melon flavors.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Dark- colored wine, powered with Touriga Nacional over ripe wood and black fruit flavors. Big, firm and tannic, there’s an herbal element that adds complexity to the rich, sweet fruit with its core of dryness.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Ripe and juicy, full of blueberry fruit flavors, very smooth and velvet while also shot through with acidity. A delicious, ripe wine that is ready to drink now.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
An impressively solid, structured wine. It is filled with black plum fruits, while also showing firm tannins, signs of wood aging and great concentration.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
A big, spicy wine, with great ripe fruit character. There are dried raisins, plums and a core of tannins that edge dryness with sweetness. It’s certainly robust, very fruity, very tasty.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
A blend that adds Syrah and Cabernet Sauvignon to Portuguese varieties is always going to give an international character. So while this is a powerful and delicious red wine, packed with dark tannins and black berry and stone fruits, it is also hard to place it. New World, perhaps? It certainly has the right fruity character.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Fully ripe wine, spiced with new wood, but kept fresh with green plum acidity. A blend of Chardonnay and Arinto create a wine that is round and initially fat until the acidity kicks in. Plenty of weight here, a finely crafted wine that demands food.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
The producers explain the name—inevitable—for the fact that this wine is only produced in top years, so it is “inevitably a new experience every time.” It is a wine in a robust, big, modern style, spiced with mint over new wood and dark berry fruits. Maybe a little more restraint would have helped, but it certainly packs a punch.
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