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Jaen

Portugal

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red meats · game · aged cheeses · stews · grilled dishes

201093 pts

One of a series of four wines featuring the major red grapes of the Dão, this wine concentrates on the least familiar. The Jaen gives a tight, structured wine that is still firm after six years. Blackberry fruits and spice fill out the dry core and leave an impressive wine that…
200993 pts

The Jaen grape is specific to the Dão region of central Portugal, where it can produce dense wines with enormous color. This 2009, still surprisingly young for the variety, is dark, concentrated and generous, with sweet black plum notes balanced by hints of oak and lively acidit…
200792 pts

Known in Spain as Mencia and found in Galicia, here in Portugal it forms a part of the mix in the mountainous Dão. It is red fruit flavors that are sustained by tannins. Despite its nine years of age, it is still firmly structured, still packed with fine fruit. It is only just n…