COELHEIROS VINHA DO TACO PETIT VERDOT 2012 Country:Portugal, Alentejo almost saline mid-palate

almost saline mid-palate

still uses worm tub condensers

iron filings

The wine is fermented in stainless steel tanks before being aged in used Stockinger barrels

COELHEIROS VINHA DO TACO PETIT VERDOT 2012 Country:Portugal, Alentejo almost saline mid-palateHerdade dos Coelheiros planted Petit Verdot in Alentejo at a time when the variety was still considered an outsider in Portugal a deliberate bet on a grape that rarely headlines anywhere. Vinha do Taco draws from the estate's clay limestone soils in one of Alentejo's warmer sub zones, where long growing seasons push Petit Verdot to full phenolic ripeness. The wine opens with concentrated cassis and dark chocolate, gains an earthy, mossy depth mid