Red Wine

Quinta das Marias

Reserve Touriga Nacional 2020, 75cl

Dão

Quinta das Marias

The versatile grape variety never ceases to amaze us. Year after year, we work on our plots to better understand them, and our three parcels of Touriga Nacional are no exception. With each harvest, nature has the final say, as its stimuli are what truly prevail. That’s why the choice of the parcel that gives rise to this wine varies each year.

This is a very powerful version of Touriga Nacional, combining a good but discreet oak influence with a concentrated wine that is not overly extracted.

Harvest: Manual, carried out on September 8, 2020.

Vinification: Manual harvest in 20 kg crates. The grapes are destemmed, and fermentation and maceration are conducted in a “Ganimede” tank. Malolactic fermentation takes place in the tank.

Aging: 14 months in French oak barrels, 10% new barrels and 90% second-use barrels.

Bottling: July 2022.

Analytical Data:
Total Acidity: 5.36 g/L, Residual Sugars: 0.7 g/L, pH: 3.60

Owners: Peter & Elisabeth Eckert
Estate Manager: Victor Lopes
Winemaker: Luís Lopes

Awards

Revista Grandes Escolhas 17/20

Allergens information

Contains sulphites.

Quinta das Marias

During the last three decades, with much love and great care, we have turned Quinta das Marias into a wine house that produces top quality wines exclusively from its own culture. Our wines are an example of the elegance, depth and refinement that only the Dão region can produce, thanks to the climatic conditions and the exceptional soils from which it benefits.
The first good wines were produced in 1998. The 1999 Dão has already won a gold medal in the Dão DOC Competition. The greatest success so far has been the awarding of the Best Single Vineyard Wine of the Year prize to the Touriga NacionalReserve 2011 in the Vinhos de Portugal Competition, the most important in the country.
As a family company we place quality above everything else. And it is exactly because of this that we have managed to affirm our wines on the international markets in front of the greatest wine lovers.

Peter and Elisabeth Eckert”.