Quinta Do Couquinho, Reserva, 2020, Douro, Portugal
Another Douro red wine? Yep but that’s hardly a bad thing. Dry, medium bodied with plenty of red fruit flavours, grippy tannins that integrated well. It’s a good red wine.
Quinta Vale D Maria really knows how to make good red wine. This is pretty good although at £45 a bottle it should be. This is an issue as many people won’t try what is an excellent dry red wine. Red and black fruit are here in bucket loads, hints of strawberry and spice poke through with an under note of Vanilla. Its all very well integrated and make as a wonderful package.
Made from Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca and Sousão grapes this is a portuguese red that is pretty good, really rather good. I could say excellent but if I did that you may not read any further.
This has a rich, ruby colour. Theres are red and black berry flavours with oaky over tones from spending 12 months in french oak. The tannins are of medium intensity but are soft and well integrated. Its a little too dry when drunk on its own but beautiful when drunk with a steak. Its probably great with other meats but steak does it for me.
It’s hard to get a bad bottle of red from Portugal in the UK, it’s more of a case of how good. At £15 a bottle this is very good but drink with food.
Quinta do Pégo Douro DOP 2015 red from Portugal