Aveleda Follies Touriga Nacional 2011
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Big tannins and a dry core dominate this solid, dense wine. To balance the structure, the wine also has concentrated aromatic dark plum and berry fruits that are ripe and sustained by intense acidity. This wine, from a fine vintage, should still age, so wait until 2017. Best Buy.
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The 2011 Touriga Nacional Follies is the latest effort in this brand, one of my favorite values. It was aged for one year in French oak (one-third each of new, second use and third-use barrels). The Follies brand ages well (the 2003 I saw at the same time was still drinking well, if fully mature and the 2005 was even better), and the price is dirt cheap. They have structure and nice fruit for little money. This is a fine effort, one of the best yet. Showing off gorgeous, young fruit, it is fresh and elegant with a real backbone and a relatively crisp finish after the fragrant start. You could spend way more and do a lot worse. It often seems like a lot of wine for the price - because it is. Drink now-2023.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
So you would like to know a little bit about what a dry Touriga Nacional? You have this grape in Porto, but have yet to dive into the table wine versions. The 2011 Aveleda Follies is ready to take you on a joy ride in this unheralded wine category. Just make sure to invite a savory beef or lamb stew to the party. Deep ruby, almost black in color; complex, bold and ripe with fine development in the nose; medium bodied, fully rewarding on the palate, showing wood and demonstrative fruit in the flavors; medium finish, lively saturation in the aftertaste. (Tasted: December 7, 2015, San Francisco, CA)
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Today the Guedes family still owns 100% of the company, always committed to maintaining this family legacy which spans several generations. The son of Manuel Pedro Guedes, Fernando Guedes da Silva da Fonseca (1871-1946) continued his father’s work, significantly increasing the production capacity at the Estate. He had 7 children and it was Roberto Van-Zeller Guedes (1899-1966) who led the family business, dedicating his whole life to working at Aveleda. The 4th generation includes the six children of Roberto Van-Zeller Guedes: Fernando, Luís, António, Maria Isabel, Maria Helena and Roberto – who today manage the company’s future, together with the following generation: 14 cousins who make up the 5th generation.
Gaining great popularity for its bold but beautifully aromatic dry red wines, Touriga Nacional is the noblest variety in Port wine. Most likely originating from the Dão region, today it grows throughout the Douro Valley as well. Somm Secret—As many as 80 grape varieties can be used to make Port wine, each contributing something unique to the resulting blend. Touriga Nacional adds great color, tannins and aromatics.
Best known for intense, impressive and age-worthy fortified wines, Portugal relies almost exclusively on its many indigenous grape varieties. Bordering Spain to its north and east, and the Atlantic Ocean on its west and south coasts, this is a land where tradition reigns supreme, due to its relative geographical and, for much of the 20th century, political isolation. A long and narrow but small country, Portugal claims considerable diversity in climate and wine styles, with milder weather in the north and significantly more rainfall near the coast.
While Port (named after its city of Oporto on the Atlantic Coast at the end of the Douro Valley), made Portugal famous, Portugal is also an excellent source of dry red and white Portuguese wines of various styles.
The Douro Valley produces full-bodied and concentrated dry red Portuguese wines made from the same set of grape varieties used for Port, which include Touriga Nacional, Tinta Roriz (Spain’s Tempranillo), Touriga Franca, Tinta Barroca and Tinto Cão, among a long list of others in minor proportions.
Other dry Portuguese wines include the tart, slightly effervescent Vinho Verde white wine, made in the north, and the bright, elegant reds and whites of the Dão as well as the bold, and fruit-driven reds and whites of the southern, Alentejo.
The nation’s other important fortified wine, Madeira, is produced on the eponymous island off the North African coast.