Antonio Madeira Dão Vinhas Velhas Tinto 2019
$70.00 inc. GST
AROMA: Brooding floral aromatics of red cherries and plums.
PALATE: The palate has freshness and depth with good acidity and a lovely mineral, spicy undertow to the bright plummy fruit. There are so many levels to this: it’s not just about ripe fruit, but there’s also dried herb and mineral complexity. A complex wine, offering fruit, but also savoury complexity and good structure, with potential for development.
FOOD MATCH: Lamb, duck, white meats, codfish.
Grape Variety: Field blend of Jaen, Baga, Tinta Amarela and 20 other native grape varieties
Drinking window: 2025-2040
Alc. 13,10%
Organic and biodynamic practices.
103 in stock
Description
António Madeira, who is French of Portuguese descent, has his roots in the foothills of Serra da Estrela. Since 2010, António Madeira has been researching, the places in this sub-region, that our ancestors elected as the best for vine, those that we might call the «Grands Crus of the Dão highlands» and found a series of old vines that are distinctive because of the authenticity of their grape varieties, the characteristics and nuances of their granite soils and sun exposures.
2019 was a good year with fresh and ripe grapes. 2019 was also our second vintage in biodynamics. A Palheira 2019 is a blend of 3 of the best old vineyards cultivated by Antonio. The wines of these vines where so good in 2019 that we decided to bottle it separately from the others old vineyards that usually goes to the blend of « Vinhas Velhas » red wine. So A Palheira 2019 shows the best results that we achieve in 2019 reds. Named after the small building for tools in the vineyard, as opposed to a grand Château. It’s a special blend from various single plots. It’s a premier cru where the single vineyards are grand cru and the vinhas velhas is village.
Lots of Baga in this.
Additional Information
| brand | Antonio Madeira |
|---|---|
| size | 750ml |
| vintage | 2019 |
Reviews / Ratings / Awards
Max Allen’s 20 top drink picks of 2023
No 7. 2019 Antonio Madeira Vinhas Velhas Tinto Dao, $70 RRP
A brilliant introduction to the new wave of young Portuguese winemakers shaking up that country’s table wine scene. This wine is a co-fermented blend of more than 20 local red grape varieties including jaen (Spain’s mencia) and tinta amarela, grown in small plots of old vines – “vinhas velhas”– high in the hills of the Dao region north of Lisbon.
Beautiful flowing ripe purple fruit gives way to a dusting of cocoa-like bittersweet tannin; it’s the kind of wine that makes you crave espetada, garlicky beef skewers grilled over charcoal.
