Lobo e Falcão Centenário Grande Reserva 2024
Wine Details
- Red - Full Bodied
Portugal- Very Deep Ruby
- Castelão-based blend
- 10.125 Units
- Vegan
- 13.5% ABV
- 750 ml
- Vegetarian
- 01 October 2035
Flavour Profile
José Lobo de Vasconcelos’s estate has been in the family for 250 years. It boasts 125 hectares of beautiful vineyards in Portugal’s Tejo, but there's just one small vineyard that José preserves as it always has been – dotted by equally old olive trees. That’s the way farmers used to plant their land a century back. And José wouldn’t dream of changing it, even though the authorities complain it's against the rules.
The vines are a mix of varieties, what they call a field blend, just like the old days, which accounts for the wine's gorgeous rich depth of flavour. The grapes – mostly Castelão and Alicante Bouschet with, unusually some Petit Verdot – are handpicked and most trodden by foot in the cellar's traditional old lagars (large stone troughs) to get maximum colour and flavour, then aged in French oak barrels. Open early and decant, or cellar. It's a grand match to rich red meat dishes.
José Lobo de Vasconcelos’s estate has been in the family for 250 years. It boasts 125 hectares of beautiful vineyards in Portugal’s Tejo, but there's just one small vineyard that José preserves as it always has been – dotted by equally old olive trees. That’s the way farmers used to plant their land a century back. And José wouldn’t dream of changing it, even though the authorities complain it's against the rules.
The vines are a mix of varieties, what they call a field blend, just like the old days, which accounts for the wine's gorgeous rich depth of flavour. The grapes – mostly Castelão and Alicante Bouschet with, unusually some Petit Verdot – are handpicked and most trodden by foot in the cellar's traditional old lagars (large stone troughs) to get maximum colour and flavour, then aged in French oak barrels. Open early and decant, or cellar. It's a grand match to rich red meat dishes.
