TN: Delightful Dão

[Otto Nieminen]

Boas Quintas Dão Quinta de Giesta 2008 - Dão; 12,76€; 12,5% abv; Tinta Roriz 45%, Touriga Nacional 32%, Jaen 23%; no oak aging; label
Youthful, deep red, no purplosity. A rather lovely scent: berries, dark fruit, floral, sweet but savory. Gutsy, pleasantly high in palate-cleansing tannins, but not in the dried-out rustic way that some "old style" Portuguese are: this has a lovely purity of fruit. It's not a grand wine, but with a lasagna (lots of fat which is always good with such a structure of tannin and acid as this wine has) it was lovely. I think this will be a regular wine on my table.