The 2015 Roseira is an equal blend of Touriga Nacional and Touriga Franca, aged for 21 months in used French oak. It comes in at 13.5% alcohol. This is a typical red in a style that is easy to understand. The producer (with the sibling winery Gouvyas) has produced others that are little different this issue. This still displays the producer's attention to acidity. It is focused, with mid-palate finesse, then finishes tight. Moderate tannins and the acidity provide plenty of grip as the finish lingers. It has a refined and fresh feel. This is gracefully constructed but still reasonably concentrated. It's a great food wine.

The 2011 Roseira is a blend of Touriga Franca and Touriga Nacional. Showing fine concentration in the mid-palate, focus and a bit too much oak that it really needs to pull in, this tightly-wound Tinto maintains elegance to go with its fine mid-palate. Precise and a bit tight, without a hint of jam, it should continue developing well.

The 2010 Roseira is a blend of Touriga Nacional and Touriga Franca, aged three months in tank and 17 months in used French oak barrels. It opens with a haze of moderate tannins and the smell of oak. The texture is rather seductive and the wine ultimately seems both elegant and ripe with aeration, every bit as interesting as the 2009, if not quite as evolved and expressive as yet. This graceful wine is never a wimp, though. It should hold up to foods and age well over the next decade or so. There were just 4,816 bottles and 198 magnums produced.

The 2009 Roseira is a blend of Touriga Nacional and Touriga Franca, aged for three months in tank and 17 months in used French oak barrels. It comes in at 13.5% alcohol. It seems like a night-and-day difference from the 2008, also reviewed. Here, the oak is far better integrated. Surprisingly elegant in this big vintage, the wine seems remarkably graceful, but don't be fooled: there is some pop and power on the finish and it tightened with air. Overall, this is very nice, a wine that straddles the middle of the road and should make a nice food wine. There were 4,760 bottles produced.

The 2008 Roseira, the first vintage of this bottling intended to present a more modern side of Douro, is not yet in the USA. It is a blend of Touriga Nacional and Touriga Franca, aged for three months in tank and 15 months in used French oak barrels. It comes in at 14% alcohol. Elegantly constructed, this has a fresh feel with some pop on the finish, but the one downside is the rather obvious new oak component. Owner Jo?o Roseira told me that he believes it will improve--and it may, although I'm less positive--but at the moment that means you cellar this one for another couple of years while drinking some of the others. It is otherwise nicely balanced. Note: this runs around 18 Euros in Portugal.