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We’ve ventured into Portugal’s southern Alentejo area a number of instances earlier than and remarked the way it’s a stable space that produces an excellent vary of wine types — over 250 indigenous grape varieties could be discovered right here — invariably at inexpensive costs. Representatives for the area lately despatched us a quartet of wines representing the state of present launch for the Alentejo, so let’s dig in.
2020 Casa Relvas Herdade São Miguel Rosé – A rose made out of touriga nacional, aragonez, and syrah. It’s fairly energetic and barely candy, with notes of sesame oil, white flowers, and lemon peel all properly represented. A creamy physique provides the wine sufficient energy to again up what may in any other case come throughout as overly delicate. A- / $15
2018 Cartuxa EA Pink Mix – 35% aragonez, 30% trincadeira, 20% alicante bouschet, 15% syrah. This sub-$10 wine ought to be pretty much as good as it’s, however the uncommon palate, that includes notes of hibiscus, blueberry jam, and milk chocolate. It’s positively on the candy facet, significantly on the end, however this really works fairly properly with the overload of berry-heavy fruit that powers the palate. For all of 9 bucks, you may do rather a lot worse. B+ / $9
2018 Carmim Monsaraz Reserva Pink – A mix of alicante bouchet, trincadeira, and touriga nacional. Stuffed with fruit, this wine doesn’t stray from a reasonably slender mission of providing plump pink berries, vanilla, some spice, and a soothing milk chocolate end that finally finds room for a twist of black pepper. One of many lighter and extra ephemeral wines on this assortment, I’d say it’d make an excellent base for sangria if that wasn’t typically seen as an insult. A stable summer season wine, all the identical. B+ / $16
2019 Herdade do Rocim Amphora Tinto – 50% moreto, 30% tinta grossa, 15% trincadeira, and 5% aragonez. My least favourite wine on this assortment, Rocim’s Amphora has a reasonably intense vegetal character, then strikes right into a closely sweetened character. Large with black plums, milk chocolate, and candylike vanilla, the palate finally comes throughout as inauthentic and a bit underwhelming, an uncommon outlier on this assortment (significantly because it’s the costliest). B- / $18
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