2016 A Touriga Vai Nua, Fita Preta

2016 A Touriga Vai Nua, Fita Preta

This is one of the most surprising and delicious wines we've tried this year. It's beautifully floral and elegant on the nose, with notes of rose petal and violets, with delicate wild hedgerow fruit and hints of seaspray. The palate is fine and juicy, with amazing purity on the long, fresh finish. This is one of the most drinkable wines you'll find - it has you reaching for glass after glass.

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Wine details

  • Region & country
    Portugal
  • Grape
    Touriga Nacional
  • Maturity
    Mature 2017 - 2021info
  • Colour
    Red
  • Sweetness
    Dry
  • Style
    Still
  • Unit Volume
    Bottle (75cl.)
  • ABV
    13%

Tasting notes

Wine Of The Week

I know Portugal pretty well and the Alentejo region, to the East of Lisbon, in particular. I have even made wine there a few times, so when a wine comes along that turns an established region, and the Queen of all Portuguese red grapes, on its head, I sit up and listen. Literally, ‘Naked Touriga’, this wine uses Portugal’s most famous red grape and strips it of any clothing. This is inspired because Touriga, so often, relies on oak for succour. Via Nua takes its fruit from infertile, rocky, schistous soils, lets it ferment naturally and then only spend 3 months in steel tanks before bottling it with all of its flavours still raging. This tactic captures all of the vital essence of this grape like never before. Even the alcohol is a shock – a lowly 13%, which is bizarre considering that this grape forms the backbone of the finest Vintage Ports ever made. Only 9900 bottles were made and only a fraction of these has made it to our shores, so phone Lay & Wheeler immediately if you would like to taste this wine. Winemaker António Maçanita knows what he is doing and I feel that he might change the paradigm for Touriga Nacional, because this rose petal, fresh blood and liquorice-scented wine is sheer heaven. It is what Nosferatu would drink before a night of light slaughter and he was a creature of exquisite taste.

Matthew Jukes, Money Week (October 2017)

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