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Wine & Soul Vinho Tinto Pintas Character 2013 750ml

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750ml
country
Portugal
region
Douro
W&S
94
WE
93
WA
92
WS
90
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94
Rated 94 by Wine & Spirits
Sandra Tavares and Jorge Serodio Borges make Pintas from an 85-year-old mixed planting in the Vale Mendiz, the heart of the Douro Valley just above the town of Pinhão. Pintas Character comes from an adjacent vineyard where the vines are 45 years old. Both wines ferment in lagares and age in a significant percentage of new oak (70 percent of Pintas, 50 percent for Character). While the 2013 Pintas is, for now, overwhelmed by its vanilla scents and oak tannins, Pintas Character is a glorious, sunny wine that’s both formidable and gentle. It’s supple, with bold purple fruit and schist dust to the tannins, needing a day to get past a touch of reduction and another day to start to sing. Catch this two or three years from now, when it should begin to open up. ... More details
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Wine & Soul Vinho Tinto Pintas Character 2013 750ml

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Region: Douro

From their beautifully rich Bordeaux style wines, to their famous fortified wines, the wineries of Douro in Portugal have long been recognized as being amongst the finest of the Old World. For over two thousand years, Douro has been an important center of fine wine production, and it isn't difficult to see why the earliest attempts at viticulture led to an ever expanding wine industry in the region. The beautiful Douro river provides the vineyards with all the moisture and nutrients they need in order to grow fruit of real character and flavor, and the long, baking hot summers help ripen the grapes and intensify their juices. Today, Douro wines are popular all over the world, and wineries are producing more bottles than ever before to keep up with demand. Although the region is still most famous for the fortified wines of Porto, the still wines have centuries of tradition, and a whole set of distinctive flavors and characteristics that simply cannot be ignored.
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Country: Portugal

Benefiting from both the hot, dry Iberian climate as well as brisk Atlantic winds, Portugal is a perfectly situated country for vineyard cultivation and wine production. With a wine making history which stretches back thousands of years, it comes as little surprise that wine plays an important role in the cultural identity and practices of the country. The Phoenicians, the Carthaginians, the Greeks and the Romans all had a hand in forming Portugal as an important center for wine production, and over the millennia, this resulted in each region of this beautiful part of Europe producing its own distinctive wines easily identifiable and separate from neighboring Spain's. Today, the varied terroir and climate across Portugal allows a great range of wines to be made each year, from the fresh and dry Vinho Verde wines to the famous and widely drunk fortified Port wines, and many in between.