Cortes de Cima, Touriga Nacional, Douro

Vin très séducteur, quoique bien équilibré tout de même. Vanille, pruneaux, banane. Sans doute un peu d'excès de bois à l'origine, mais que le temps a bien travaillé.

Deep purple, with 14%, don't feel it until the bottle was done. Could of been decanted more than 1 hour. Fruits, fruits and more fruits. Deep ripe and fullness like no other I tasted.

Wow - when we first opened it, there was little nose, purply round the glass and we really did not have high hopes. There was some plum in the mouth and it was even a bit sharp. Undoubtedly too cold. Decided to decant it and 3hours later, it was a different wine altogether. Nose became perfumed. We were even convinced it lost some of the purple round the edges. On the palate, it was full, 'sweet' with loads of fruit, …