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Aveleda Follies Casa da Agueira Touriga Nacional (Bairrada)
Portugal
Fact sheet
- Type
- Other
- Grape
- Touriga Nacional
- Country
- Portugal
- Appellation
- Bairrada
- Body
- full
- Acidity
- high
- Tannin
- high
- Sweetness
- dry
Food pairing
carne assada · cordeiro · churrasco · queijos curados
Rated vintages
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201592 pts
From the Quinta da Aguieira, this serious, concentrated wine has the violet perfume typical of Touriga Nacional. It is a rich, dense and tannic wine, full of black fruit, dark chocolate and bright acidity. Drink this wine from late 2018.
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201293 pts
When Aveleda's Guedes family purchased Quinta da Agueira, it came with its own grand house, a 19th century folly (a great term in the British lexicon). So, being fans of follies, the family named this spicy wine after the house. This wine is dense and concentrated, with dark fru…
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201192 pts
Big tannins and a dry core dominate this solid, dense wine. To balance the structure, the wine also has concentrated aromatic dark plum and berry fruits that are ripe and sustained by intense acidity. This wine, from a fine vintage, should still age, so wait until 2017.