Faldas da Serra Quinta das Maias Dao Vinho Tinto 2016

The wines of Portugal’s Dao region have a special spicy terroir signature all their own. Quinta das Maias’s Dao blends the indigenous varietals Jaen (60%), Touriga Nacional (25%), Alfrocheiro (10%), and Tinta Roriz to craft a wine that thrills with complexity and character. Saturated plum ruby in the glass, this tinto offers aromas of wild blueberries, damson plums, crushed herbs, and graphite minerals. Bright, tangy and delicious the instant it hits your palate, the wine fuses tart cherry and blackberry fruit with accents of crushed bay leaf, dried orange peel, and chewy black licorice. Coiled, energetic, and palate staining, Maias’s tinto finishes deliciously long, with plentiful buffered tannins to frame its lively black fruit expressions and to amplify its spicy minerality and peppery top notes. Enjoy this terrific value now or over the next five years with cured meats, grilled pork, and red meat preparations featuring smoky pimenton.