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• ThalesGaspar Likes this wine: 94 points

  August 8, 2022 - This is wine as absolutely nothing to complain about. It's a mainstream red wine delicious in every way. However, I have to admit I expected more considering the hype. The point is, this doesn't surprised me, like some great Bordeauxs or Tuscans have done, for example. Drink now or hold.

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• pgartner Likes this wine: 95 points

  June 16, 2021 - Excellent

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• fredfta wrote: 95 points

  June 20, 2018 - Trazido da Cartuxa e aberto ontem para celebrar meu aniversário. Blend de Vinhas Velhas de Aragonez e Trincadeira. Estagiou 18m em tonéis de carvalho francês. Visual rubi-violáceo intransponível. Expressivo e complexo no nariz, exibiu frutas mistas maduras, compota, aromas florais, eucalipto, especiarias picantes, café, caramelo, chocolate, cedro. Em boca é envolvente, suculento, taninos de luxo, encorpado, final guloso e muito persistente. Em belíssima forma e com todos os predicados para crescer na adega.

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• Gargantua wrote:

  May 15, 2017 - Portuguese Masterclass: Red Varietals (Lisbon, Portugal): Grape: Classical Alentejo blend – Trincadeira and Aragonez
  Wine: Pêra-Manca 2011 Region: Alentejo
  Main features:
   One of the most famous red wines in Portugal, sells like crazy in Angola and Brazil. Always very expensive, rare and speculated. Only made in best years (3 to 4 each decade)
   First release 1990 (the label is much older)
   Always the some two varieties, only differs in proportion, according to the climate of the year. Vineyards must be over 30 y old
   Granitic soil. High alcohol content: 15%
   Fermentation in big new wood vats and ages in French tonel
   Also ages in bottle before released
   30 000 bottles produced
  
  Nose shows old wood (surprisingly). Palate seems hot, jammy a bit, with insane length. Chocolate almost on the palate. Heat that was alluded to on the attack never really manifests, quite an accomplishment for a 15% ABV. Silky fine tannins that still bite and are quite drying. This wine is clearly not for me--not my style.

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• Sthel Likes this wine: 94 points

  March 1, 2017 - Espetacular. Muito aromático, encorpado, final longo e muito persistente.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2011
• Type Red
• Producer Adega da Cartuxa
• Varietal Red Blend
• Designation Pêra-Manca
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Portugal
• Region Alentejano
• SubRegion Alentejo
• Appellation Évora
• UPC Codes 5602720050010, 5602720050133, 5602720054117

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• In Cellars 184 (76%)
• Consumed 58 (24%)

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