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Red Wine Templarios Colheita Selecionada

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Colheita Selecionada in Portuguese means: Selected Harvest. And this wine it’s really a fabulous red wine with persistent finish, pleasant and with well-structured tannins. It’s velvety with hints of blueberries, ripe black plum and light toast.

Enjoy it with red meat, game dishes and cheese.

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Delivery: 2 to 6 weeks

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Export Box: 6 bottles with 75cl
Euro Pallet 110 boxes

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Premium red wine from the Tejo region

Designation: Templarios Colheita Seleccionada Red Wine
Appellation: Vinho Regional Tejo
Origin: Tomar, Portugal

Grape varieties: Touriga Nacional 50%, Cabernet Sauvignon 25% and Merlot 25%

Ageing 5 months in French and American oak barrels

Winemaker tasting notes: "Intense aroma with notes of ripe red fruits, vanilla and spices. In the mouth reveals itself velvety with hints of blueberries, ripe black plum and light toast. Persistent finish with pleasant and well-structured tannins.

Analysis

Alcohol content: 14% vol.
pH 3,23
Total acidity: 5,9 g/l
Reducing sugars: 2,8 g/l

Reviews: "This would likely be my pick of the red litter. lt seems fuller than it is on first attack and pleasingly fruity thereafter, yet, it has nice structure, too, and the structure takes over. After some aeration, it finishes a little hard edged in its youth, but with a nice, slightly earthy character, tinged with a little oak. That should integrate nicely with time. Drink now. - 88pts - Mark Squires 2011

"The aroma shines with Touriga Nacional perfumes, while the palate brings together great ripe perfumed and spiced fruit, smooth, rich and dense."
89pts - Roger Voss 2/1/2012

Awards

  • Gold Concurso de Vinhos do Tejo
  • Silver Mundus Vini 2016
  • Silver Texsom IWA 2016
  • Silver Challenge Int. Vin 2016
  • 87pts. Wine Enthusiast

The Grapes

Cabernet Sauvignon GrapesCabernet Sauvignon

Cabernet Sauvignon is probably the most famous red wine grape variety on Earth. It is rivaled in this regard only by its Bordeaux stablemate Merlot, and its opposite number in Burgundy, Pinot Noir. From its origins in Bordeaux, Cabernet has successfully spread to almost every winegrowing country in the world.

It has found a special niche and style in the Tejo Region, one of the few Portuguese winegrowing regions where it can ripen to perfection.

Cabernet Sauvignon is one of those varieties that can be termed "enriching"; deeply colored and thick-skinned, it can spice up blends, imbuing body and consistency to well-composed, perfumed, fruity and spicy wines.

It is rarely bottled as a varietal wine in the Tejo, but is present in small amounts to give structure in many wines.

Appreciated for its versatility, resistance and correctness it yields wines of immense longevity that age with elegance and security.

Touriga Nacional GrapesTouriga Nacional

As Portugal’s most well-known grape variety, it has made a nice home for itself in the Tejo region.

Producing wines with high tannins, full body and flavors like dark berries, plums and purple flowers, the grape thrives in southern Portugal’s warm climate.

Bold dark-fruit flavors, often with hints of spice, leather and violet. Touriga Nacional has firm tannins shows great aging potential.

Merlot

Merlot is a red wine variety with strong historic ties to Bordeaux and the southwest of France.

Been introduced in the Tejo region with very good results in the production of red wines.

It is a grape used for producing wines of a particular texture, rather than a particular taste, relying on organoleptic properties other than just flavor and aroma.

Smooth, rounded and "easy drinking" are common descriptions of Merlot wines. The main reason for this is that Merlot grapes are relatively large in relation to their pips and the thickness of the skins, in which tannins are found. For this reason, the variety is used to soften wines made from more tannic varieties.

Merlot is often dismissed as a reliable blending variety. It is often used to great effect in this capacity, and is responsible (alongside Cabernet Sauvignon) for some of the most famous wines in the world.