Quando os Tigres Fumavam 2022
The grapes composing this wine are from a small vineyard in the Terras de Senhorim, a Sub-Region of Dão. The age of the vines used to make this wine ranges between 60 and 100 years-old. Many of these grapes are Touriga Nacional, but also Tinta Pinheira, Tinta Carvalha, Baga, Touriga Fêmea, Tinta Roriz, Alfrocheiro & Jaen, among others.
Alcoholic fermentation occurred naturally without the addition of chemicals or yeasts. After being aged for 18 months in barrels of “Puligny Montrachet” from Burgundy , a strict selection of each barrels was made to create Quando os Tigres Fumavam.
It is always the philosophy of Carlos to create fine, elegant and precise wines. Wines where imagination will have no limits.
1484 bottles of 0,75L
Alcohol 13%
The palate is fresh, it’s got nice texture, good acidity & a really nice, fairly delicate but not light flow of black cherries & plums across the palate. Sweet fruit, but not too sweet and there’s that green edge again & a good acidity that frames it really nicely. A really nice debut-a lovely wine.
Jamie Goode, Wine journalist, lecturer & flavour obsessive