Winery - Quinta de Chocapalha
* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
With attractive wood aging and lemon flavors, this is a delicious, rich wine. It needs a couple of years, while already developing well. Acidity enlivens green plum and red apple flavors.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Big, smoky wood flavored wine. At this stage, it is all tannins, wood and dark spice. With the weight of fruit, though, it should develop into a solid and rich wine, layering its tannins with sweet black plum flavors.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
This wine feels big and burly, its tannins powering through the fruit. It has a strong structure, firm black plums, the acidity giving a lift to the weight of dark fruits. It needs aging, over the next 4–5 years.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Deliciously fresh, full of floral aromas, citrus and white fruit flavors, and long, ripe acidity. Blending Arinto, Viosinho and Vital, this is has minerality and a complexity from lees aging.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Although this wine was wood-aged, the toast is subtle, smoothing into the creaminess of the ripe yellow fruits. A blend of Chardonnay and Viosinho, this is beautifully textured wine, suggesting aging potential.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Perhaps not one of the big successes of Chocapalha, this is a wine that seems to bring out barnyard and earthy characters. The fruit is way behind the tannins and lean structure. Maybe with aging it will develop.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
A fresh-faced wine, its bright acidity given some weight by a creamy texture. As a contrast, apple skin flavors give an edginess, an attractive tang, emphasized by the final citric acidity.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
The climate of the region north of Lisbon is oceanic, as in Bordeaux, so it’s no surprise that Cabernet Sauvignon works well here. The wine has tannins and black currant flavors, along with a very ripe character giving weight.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Fermented in an open stone lagar, giving great depth of color as well as rich, plummy concentration. The wine is ripe and bold, a plethora of licorice and bitter coffee to go with the rich red fruit. The tannins and acidity are finely in balance.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
A beautifully aromatic wine, with a fruit skin texture to go with the creamier pear and pink grapefruit character. The wine is as fresh as a summer morning, finishing with lemon zest acidity.
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