Sunday Business Post

"Portugal’s most fashionable wines at present are easily the dry reds from the Douro Valley, where grapes normally used to make port, are being pressed into service in conventional winemaking. The results are astounding, huge wines, bursting with fruit. This offering is from the Symington Port family, and the touriga nacional and touriga franca grapes used in its production have resulted in a polished, dark fruit-bomb of a wine, dense with blackcurrant and leather, but also hints of tar. Solid tannins and a surfeit of ripe fruit beg for two or three more years in the bottle. Ideal with rich roast beef, or perhaps a duck cassoulet."
Tomás Clancy - 06 September 2009