Quinta do Noval, 2016 Red Wine

Touriga Nacional, DOC Douro, Red Wine

Bottle size: 75cl

ABV: 13%

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$51.18 USD

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Description

This 2016 Touriga Nacional, Douro Red Wine is from the famous Quinta do Noval Estate and is from their superb range of red table wines.

Touriga Nacional is the ultimate noble grape variety of the Douro valley. It lies at the heart of blending for port wines and as such enjoys wide international recognition.
Intense and concentrated, with fine tannic structure, our dry version of Touriga Nacional is distinguished by its delicacy, a characteristic of the Quinta do Noval style. It is the product of a strict selection from the best lots produced by our Quinta in any given year.

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Condition

Excellent

Reviews

***95 Points- Mark Squires for The Wine advocate***
The 2016 Touriga Nacional was aged for ten months in French oak of varying ages (only 35% new). It comes in at just 13% alcohol. Only in bottle a couple of weeks, this still looked impressive with aeration. This and the new Grande Reserva look like the best table wines I've seen yet from Noval—but note that they are all about potential just now. Backing off of the oak compared to the 2015 very much helped this. Showing mid-palate finesse and old-school elegance, this is wonderfully aromatic. It's got flavor too, some blue fruits dancing around the edges. It then finishes tight, precise and intense. With a couple of hours of air, it does evolve, but it really needed that. If you want a Douro version of Bordeaux, this and its Grande Reserva sibling are good starts. Now, it is still painfully young. It could use some time, perhaps more than indicated. It will improve notably in the cellar. This will be released in September, along with its other 2016 siblings, shortly after this article appears.

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