In order to better guide you in your choices, our guest sommelier now offers wines every week according to six possible categories: Affordable, Bargain, Classic, Discovery, Keeping and Treating. You will therefore have the possibility of buying a bottle at a reasonable price, of excellent value for money, of undeniable quality, to broaden your horizons, to leave in the cellar or to have fun.
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The Douro vineyards are among the most beautiful, and impressive, there is. And their wines are very distinctive. They bear the mark of these hot and often dry terroirs: very ripe fruit and a fleshy mouthfeel.
But the best ones also show a lot of freshness, thanks in part to the shale soils from which they come.
And this is the case with Dourosa 2019. With a deep purplish color, this Quinta de la Rosa Dourosa Douro 2019 gently reveals notes of black fruits, mauve flowers, herbs and sun-heated earth.
The mouth shows substance, with a lot of fruit, but also a lot of freshness, tone and moderate, slightly firm tannins.
Cocoa notes and a mineral impression stretch out on the finish. To be enjoyed with lamb chops with herbs, ribs, bean stew with chorizo.
Quinta de la Rosa Dourosa Douro 2019, $21 (12640232), 13.5%
Aging: 2 or 3 years