WTN: Delightful Dão

Boas Quintas Dão Quinta de Giesta 2008 - Dão; 12,76€; 12,5% abv; Tinta Roriz 45%, Touriga Nacional 32%, Jaen 23%; no oak aging; label
Youthful, deep red, no purplosity. A rather lovely scent: berries, dark fruit, floral, sweet but savory. Gutsy, pleasantly high in palate-cleansing tannins, but not in the dried-out rustic way that some "old style" Portuguese are: this has a lovely purity of fruit. It's not a grand wine, but with a lasagna (lots of fat which is always good with such a structure of tannin and acid as this wine has) it was lovely. I think this will be a regular wine on my table.

Cool! The Dão is, next to Bairrada, my favorite Portuguese appelation. They have a real dry wine tradition (whcih the Douro doesn't have) and often still do things the old fashioned way.

What attaches to the notion of purplosity? In my experience, it's a suspicion induced by color that it might be super mature...

Cool! The Dão is, next to Bairrada, my favorite Portuguese appelation. They have a real dry wine tradition (whcih the Douro doesn't have) and often still do things the old fashioned way.

What attaches to the notion of purplosity? In my experience, it's a suspicion induced by color that it might be super mature...

Sorry Oswaldo, meant to respond earlier, but I can't keep everything straight in my mind. Unlike your recent interesting, but less than ultimately enjoyable, experiences, my favorite Portuguese table wine might be (very) old Colares. But I have so little experience with non-Douros (because Finland's imports are skewed, and practically all we see is Douro) that I can't say for sure. But I have enjoyed the "older" style much more than the slick, modern, anonymous, international style of the so called top-Douros.

And as for purplosity: it's not only about maturity as sometimes with some grapes even light colored wines can seem very ripe. I have seen more correlation with spoofulation in general rather than just ripeness.

Interesting, had never correlated color with spoof before, will pay more attention.