Rood · Douro
Titan of Douro — Vale dos Mil
Century-old vines. Foot-trodden. Wild yeasts.
Availability to be confirmed
Aged 18 or over. Identification may be requested on delivery; alcohol is not left with neighbours.
About this wine
From the Valley of a Thousand: ungrafted bush vines at 750–850 metres, organically farmed and foot-trodden in granite lagares. Intense, mineral and complex. Not a lunch wine.
Intense ruby red. Rockrose, resin, eucalyptus and clove beside currant and cherry. Powerful texture with fresh mineral acidity.
Roast meat, firm cheese or an evening when the wine is the conversation.
Specifications
- Regio
- Douro, Portugal
- Producent
- Titan of Douro
- Oogstjaar
- to be confirmed
- Druiven
- samenstelling te bevestigen
- Stijl
- Cult wine — intense, mineral, sixteen months in French oak
- Serveertemperatuur
- 17–18°C
- Taste
- Intense ruby red. Rockrose, resin, eucalyptus and clove beside currant and cherry. Powerful texture with fresh mineral acidity.
- Foodpairing
- Roast meat, firm cheese or an evening when the wine is the conversation.
What to eat with it
Which wine goes with lamb?
For slow-roasted shoulder or lamb with a rich sauce: rockrose, eucalyptus and clove play with rosemary and thyme.
Which wine goes with game?
Spicy and mineral with fresh red fruit: with game stew, roe deer or venison.
Which wine goes with steak?
Côte de boeuf or rib-eye: enough texture and acidity for fatty, grilled beef.
Which wine goes with cheese?
An old hard cheese and nothing else, on an evening when the wine is the conversation.
Why Varna and Nelson chose this
Why we chose this
Varna & Nelson: “One bottle in a drop may stop you in your tracks. This is that bottle — and it earns its price.”
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