Mar
13
Try this out: bake some Nestle toll house cookies and taste them with a glass of Niepoort Vertente Douro. Strange as it sounds, this Portuguese red is a fantastic match with warm chocolate chip cookies, as we found out this evening, but this is just one of several features that make it a very interesting wine.
What else? Light body and high acidity, almost like the red counterpart to dry Riesling. Also, it’s the first Portuguese wine that we’ve reviewed, and it’s made from non-run-of-the-mill grapes: Tinta Roriz (a.k.a. Tempranillo (the link is to Wikipedia)) and Touriga Franca, one of the major grape varieties used in making Port.
We got aromas and flavors of blackberry, marzipan, brown sugar, and maraschino cherry.
Overall, this is not one to age for more than a couple of years, but it makes for a delicious dinner wine, particularly with chocolatey dessert.
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