An early assessment of the vintage
Back to Quinta do Centro to taste all the wines from this year’s vintage. The Cabernet Sauvignon is simple, raw and unbalanced – to be expected given we picked it at the end as an afterthought. The young vine Alicante Bouschet blended with some Aragonez is fresh, sappy, peppery and spicy with slightly green tannins underlying. The young vine Trincadeira doesn’t have much colour and it quite subdued and, happlily, not at all herbaceous. A bit simple perhaps but soft, sweet and already quite satisfying.