Ramos Pinto Duas Quintas Reserva 2013
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Recommended to pair this wine with eggplant tagine, bean stew, or game dishes such as partridge rice, wild boar stew, or roasted and stuffed turkey. Try it also with creamy Serra cheese or with Stilton.
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All about gentleness and harmony, this vintage of DQ Reserva shows the figgy ripeness of fruit from Ervamoira, a riverside vineyard near Foz Coa in the Douro Superior, balanced by fresher notes of purple plums, reflecting fruit from the cooler, high elevations of Bons Ares. It's meaty and lusciously rich, integrating oak tannins into a reserved and elegant lasting impression.
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A powerful dense wine that is rich and firmly structured, so it has big bold black fruit flavors that are still firmly embedded in dark tannins. It is a fine complex wine, the fruit of two of Ramos-Pinto's quintas in the Douro Superior. Keep this wine until 2018 at least. Celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2015, this brand was the among the first Douro still wines. Cellar Selection.
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The 2013 Duas Quintas Reserva is a blend of 66% Touriga Nacional, 21% Touriga Franca and 13%Tinta Barca, fermented in large vats and aged for 16 months in a mixture of new, second and third use barrels. Not showing quite the density of some, it still has gorgeous structure and beautiful fruit. It is a very nice effort in a difficult vintage, but it is showing very little now except its power. Lots of aeration allowed, this might be a bit more interesting, but all you can do with this just now is cellar it. At the moment, it doesn't quite have the concentration of some of the stars here, but they didn't seem quite as concentrated when young, either. This will be released in mid-2016. Rating: 90+
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Ripe and juicy, with concentrated flavors of Asian spice, dark plum and forest floor, supported by fresh acidity and medium-grained tannins. The creamy finish is long and rich.
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Founded by Adriano Ramos Pinto in 1880, Casa Ramos Pinto rapidly became noted, at the time, for its innovative and enterprising strategy. Associated with quality bottled wines, it began operating on the Brazilian market in the early 20th century and quickly became responsible for half of the wine exported to South America, whilst it was still conquering generations of loyal customers in Portugal and Europe. These were the natural results of a forward thinking strategy, based on the modernisation of selection, batching and ageing circuits, and the special care which Adriano Ramos Pinto devoted to the packaging and promotion of his wines.
Aware that the quality of its wines were confined to the earth of the wine producing Douro, Casa Ramos Pinto meticulously studied this Demarcated Region, and eventually became the owners of a number of estates with very special characteristics. The objective was to ensure the control and quality of the whole production process. By perfecting its wines, Ramos Pinto created unique nectars with its own signature.
In 1990, Casa Ramos Pinto became part of the Roederer Group, whose history has identical characteristics. The qualities that gave fame to Casa Ramos Pinto now took on an international dimension.
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White wines, generally crisp, mineral-driven blends of Arinto, Viosinho, Gouveio, Malvasia Fina and an assortment of other rare but local varieties, are produced in small quantities but worth noting.
With hot summers and cool, wet winters, the Duoro has a maritime climate.