Quinta dos Vales Tinto Grace Vineyard Marques Dos Vales

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The 2007 TINTO “GRACE VINEYARD - MARQUES DOS VALES” is a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Aragonez and Castelao, aged for 18 months in French oak. This is another well structured wine from this winery, but the oak is fairly prominent here and submerges the fruit on opening. It does become much better balanced with aeration, becoming crisper and displaying the same grace and charming sensibilities of this producer’s other reds, tasty but elegant, with a good backbone. It has a price point under 11 Euros in Portugal. There were 13,000 bottles produced. Drink now-2016. This is a first look at this winery in Algarve, a region not terribly well known for wine even in Portugal. Marketing under its brand name, Marques dos Vales, Quinta dos Vales calls itself a “wine and art farm” in the Central Western Algarve, possessed of vineyards, orchards with citrus, figs, plums, apricots, and peaches, plus two sculpture gardens and an animal park. The winemakers here are Paulo Laureano, the esteemed winemaker from Mouchao, and Dorina Lindemann. This may well have been my favorite showing of the Algarve wineries featured in this report. Note: The top level wines carry “Grace” or “Grace Vineyard” on the label. Despite “Grace Vineyard” on some of the labels, I’m told in fact that the wines are NOT single vineyard wines, but are sourced from “Quinta dos Vales’ estate plus a vineyard in the area of Silves.” The term Grace Vineyard, representing the Grace statute on the estate, is used when the wines are blends, while monovarietal wines are simply labeled, for instance, “Grace - Touriga Nacional.” It is admittedly hard to understand, but the winery says it has legal approval. In any event—just drink the wine. It is pretty good.There is no USA importer at this time.