2016 Herdade do Esporão Douro Minas Quinta dos Murças

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 88.7 points

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  12/29/2020 - mdefreitas wrote: 88 Points

  A good amount of character for a budget wine. Tart, grippy cranberry fruit, florals and hints of crushed stones on the finish. Better with food (and a bit of decanting).

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  8/28/2020 - trastevere Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Decanted to aerate it. Purple colour. Berries on the nose. Smooth and fresh, with a hit of damson and blackberry, dark chocolate, some herbs, and tannins that are smoothing but still have a certain grip to them.

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  2/13/2020 - The Drunken Cyclist wrote: 89 Points

  Retail $24. Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinta Francisca, Tinta Roriz, Tinto Cão. Quite fruity on the nose with red fruit, floral notes, and a balsamic reduction thing going on. The palate is equally fruity, but also with a zingy tartness and some grippy, chalky tannins on the backend. This is perhaps not a mind-blowing, life-changing kind of wine, but it is a perfectly delightful wine, that would pair lovely with an array of food: burgers, pizza, grilled meat, BBQ, tailgates. While adding a bit of sophistication. thedrunkencyclist.com

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  7/30/2019 - Martin Redmond Likes this wine: 89 Points

  A Taste of Esporao for Portugal Day: Color - Opaque purple
  Aromas - Black and red fruit, anise, espresso bean, balsamic, and graphite
  Body - between medium and full-bodied, with vibrant acidity and firm slightly drying velvety tannins
  Taste - Black currant, plum, Black Cherry, espresso, dried herb, and graphite flavors with an alluring minerality
  Finish - medium plus

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  6/10/2019 - isaacjamesbaker wrote: 90 Points

  Deep purple color. On the nose, there is a ton of earthy and spicy complexity, with anise, black pepper, charcoal, with a core of dark but tangy currant fruit. Medium to full-bodied with some serious grip to the tannins, but fresh acidity. Black currant and tart plum kinds of fruit, with a mix of spicy tones (anise, pepper, clove) with espresso, and underlying mineral, stony and graphite elements, lots of complexity. For a wine at this price point, this has serious concentration and could benefit from some cellar time. A schist soil blend of Touriga Franca, Touriga Nacional, Tinta Roriz and others, aged in concrete and old French oak for nine months.

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