Description
Touriga Nacional is Portugal's patrimonially significant dark-fruited, thick-skinned, low-yielding red grape. But don't let modifier fool you; this exquisite iteration is organically grown and vinified by one of the Dão's most renowned female vintners, Elisa Freire Lobo. Full of beautiful floral notes and fine tannins, and balanced by a mouthwatering citrusy acid, the deep, plum-colored elixir is ideal for aging, or fortification (Touriga Nacional is a principal component of most Port, for example), though this particular example is fresher, leaner, fermented spontaneously with indigenous yeast and stored in steel lagares.