2014 “The Fortress” (Port Style Wine)
$65.00
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Description
Varietal: 100% Touriga Nacional
Vineyard: Bethel Road
Region: Templeton Gap, Westside Paso Robles
Bottle Size: 750ml
The Fortress is a fortified, sweet Port styled wine. We utilized 100% Touriga Nacional, arguably Portugal’s most revered varietal and used extensively in the production of Porto. Our experience with Touriga has been that it has an extremely spicy flavor even when very ripe. We halted the fermentation by adding brandy (distilled from Shirah barrels that we felt were not worthy of bottling as high end boutique wine) to the still quite sweet fermenting Touriga must. The wine is about 21% alcohol and was barrel aged in neutral oak for around 18 months and bottle aged for almost 3 years.
New Release TN’s:
Date Tasted: Dec. 2018
Nose: Blueberry jam, toasted Asian spice, candied orange peel, strawberry, licorice, tamarind.
Mouth: Juicy and sweet with great fine tannin. Brandy notes, blackberry candy. Spiced cherry juice. Burnt sage and more blueberry jam on the finish.
Additional Notes: – Drink chilled. Large wine glasses will project the high alcohol
– Drink now through 2040
– Pair this with dessert, cigars and spicy Asian cuisine.
Additional information
| Weight | 3 lbs |
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