Type: Red Wine
Country: Portugal
Region: Douro Valley
Code: CORO040
Made from indigineous Portuguese Port Grape varieties such as Tinto Roriz, Tinta Francesca etc., this wine is made by the talented Manoel Poças, in partnership with the mighty Chateau Angelus of St Emilion ( name dropper! ). Expect refined elegant dark fruits, layered minerality and freshness, a very high degree of polish and subtlety as well as a spicy long finish. Could easily match against Bordeaux reds at twice the price!

Poças

In 1918, 30-year-old Manoel Domingues Poças Júnior decided to start his own Port enterprise. He already had a large amount of experience of the Port industry, having been born in the hustle and bustle of it all coupled with strong family ties to fortified wine production. Initially, Manoel and his uncle concentrated on selling grape juice to Port wine shippers or larger Port wine houses, which consolidated their knowledge and qualified them to be real experts of the trade.

They opened their first office in Nova de Gaia soon after, premises that have served them well, remaining their Head office to this day, as well as being home to a renowned Port wine cellar. The f...

Ruby with a dark core. Clean and fruity notes, with layers of mulled black berry, cherry stone and a wonderfully crunchy, classy baked cherry pie, balanced on a nerve edge of freshness and refined brooding power.... Full-bodied, aromatic and elegant. Oh so very, very good!
Lovely with roast lamb, lighter game dishes and decent roast pork.
A blend of several key red grapes - Tinto Roriz, Tinta Fracesca, Touriga Nacional etc, which are all used for Port wine production. The grapes are selected in the field and harvested manually from steep terraced vineyard plots in the Upper Douro river basin. The grapes are destemmed, and transferred into Temperature controlled fermentation tanks, where the ferment starts. There is extended maceration in tank, with daily pumpovers. The wine is finished in French oak and tank on lees, with 20% second year French oak. After 6 months the wine is racked into tank for settling before filtration and bottling. “Allier” oak casks.

Wine Merchant Top 100, Highly Commended, 2022. Recommended Douro Reds, Decanter, January 2023: "Ripe blackberry, elegant earthy aromas, ripe fruit with succulent tannins. An attractive, fruit-forward wine". Tom Surgey, Wine Writer, Instagram, Feb 2023: "Yummy, juicy, rich Douro red... absolutely belting chicken wine."

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