Carlos Raposo 'Impecavel' - Touriga Nacional 2021 (750ml)
| Producer | Carlos Raposo 'Impecavel' |
| Country | Portugal |
| Region | Dao |
| Varietal | Touriga Nacional |
| Vintage | 2021 |
| Sku | 11690 |
| Size | 750ml |
James Suckling: 93 Points
This is spiced and savory with attractive crushed berries and notes of dried herbs and violets. Lovely texture with very fine, polished tannins and a soft, supple mouthfeel. Pure and delicious with hints of spices at the end. Touriga nacional. Unoaked. Drink or hold.
Others: 92 Points
John Gilman
The 2021 Impecável bottling from Carlos Raposo is composed entirely from Touriga Nacional. The vines are thirty years of age, farmed either organically or biodynamically and the wine is fermented and raised in stainless steel. It delivers a deep and refined bouquet of dark berries, saddle leather, cigar ash, hung game, pepper, dark soil tones and just a hint of tobacco leaf in the upper register. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied and quite elegant for young Touriga Nacional, with fine depth at the core, excellent soil signature and grip, ripe, chewy tannins and excellent length on the well balanced finish. Carlos aims for a very gentle extraction on this wine and it really shows, as it avoids some of the heaviness that one can often find in single varietal bottlings of Touriga Nacional. This will be a lovely bottle, but it will need some time in the cellar to soften up its tannins. 2033-2075
