Portal D'Ouro Tinto DOC 2010 88 Points

Portal D'Ouro Tinto DOC 2010 88 Points

If you are looking for a bright red to washed down your roasted suckling pig, or anything pork based, look no further than this Tinto aka red wine produce in the Douro Valley by Quinta do Portal, Portugal, available exclusively at Checkers nationwide at R 40/bottle, a bargain indeed.
Bright, ruby red with slight garnet rim.

Clean, moderate intensity, delicately ripe cherries, plums and hints of strawberry jam, earthy with slight floral lift, almonds, camphor spices, brush of spicy oak.

Dry with moderate plus acidity, crunchy red fruit with ripe firm tannin, nutty, delicately savory with medium plus alcohol of 13.5% abv, quite punchy in farewell, drink now until 2015.

Blend of Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz and Tinta Barocca.