Darkishly alluring; there’s blackness to the core and yet a garnet ring. Best observed by candle light. No false modesty here: this is the most beautiful - the most beautiful - combination of touriga’s pretty bright floral fruit perfume and its more suave, serious, stentorious and yet gentlemanly dark broodiness. Liquorice and blackberry and tar and roses and violets and iron. Textural yet silky: the brightly-coloured and flavoured berry fruits remain in an impossibly fresh posture and show. Vibrancy to taste. Yet is this the red grape variety that makes vintage port? Yes, hence the colour and the plushness and the tannin. Sorry: TANNIN. This is dry and long and mouthpuckering and at one sip turns you into an Iberian ready to discover the unknown world. Yet there is balance and strategy in this mouthful of wine, and it navigates its way across your palate in an effortless way. You do know you are drinking red wine, but it is also beguiling….