DATA

Grape variety: Touriga Nacional

Vinha Grande Vineyard, with South-North exposure. Soil calcareous and clay (iron). Training method: Guyot. 1600 vines/ha(acre). 0,8 tons (yield/acre).

Fermentation in lagares 12 days. Puching-down. Maceration during 15 days.

24 months in french oak barrels.

3230 bottles.

Winemaker: Sandra Tavares.

TASTING -AD HOC-

The wine is Garnet colour, deep intensity and clear for now.
Clean and medium intensity, some notes from MLF, cream, yoghourt, strawberry too. The wood is integrated in my nose. The wine is in development.

IN THE PALATE

Tannins+++, medium plus acidity and medium+ alcohol. Totally dry, no sugars. Red cherry, milk Chocolate, cream smoothie, medium astringency and tartrates. Long finish with black berries notes and hints of acetaldehyde (nail polish).
At the beggining, the wine is a little bit closed, but increasingly shows the potential of the grape, and the vinification (24 months in casks). The soil ( clay, iron, mineral) is noticeable in the palate after a few seconds. 

24 HOURS

Full body, rounded tannins and good creamy body, with softy fruity and acidity. Today cherry in liquor, red licorice, chocolate, strawberry, honey. 

Countryside (Alenquer) close to the Tejo river in your mouth.

CONCLUSIONS
Full body red wine, with important grape flavour quantity in the process of tasting, and a very good potential for ageing ( but you can drink now). Very good Quality, complex in aromas and fruity flavours. It is a very good example of a Touriga Nacional from Vinho Regional LIsboa (not Douro).

PAIRING

Hare with cocoa sauce, cherry radishes

QUINTA DE CHOCAPALHA
http://www.viveralenquer.pt/fazer.php?id1=10&id2=2

https://www.facebook.com/JAVIERAZCONAFABON/posts/1597193080365203?pnref=story

Rojo picota, ribete amoratado, capa alta.
Intenso en nariz, muy frutal, zarzaparrilla, fruta negra en sazón, floral, lavanda, muy aromático. Con el aire va mostrando tonos balsámicos y de monte bajo, dando aromas muy mediterráneos. Bien, pero algo artificial.
En boca es denso, con mucha concentración, tánico y amargoso, se nota en exceso esa carga de madera en el final, madera que creo que no se va a integrar pues parece que puede sobre la uva. Final largo de fruta negra y ahumados. Buena persistencia.
Sandra Tavares es una de las enólogas más prestigiosas de Portugal, autora entre otros del excelente Pintas, pero con este vino de la zona de Lisboa se ha pasado con esos 22 meses de madera nueva destrozando lo que seguramente es una buena toruriga. Una pena. 25 euros.