The Quinta de Chocapalha Tinto is a red wine blend of traditional Portuguese grape varieties that includes:Touriga Nacional, Tinta Roriz, Touriga Franca, Castelão and Alicante Bouschet. Aged for 18 months in used French oak barriques this is a deeply coloured wine that has a bright, sweet cherry nose, fresh with cassis back-notes and mineral tones. Very fine and elegant on the palate with soft tannins combined with good acidity and a long aftertaste.
Quinta de Chocapalha is beautifully sited on the sunny hillsides of Portugal’s Lisboa region, north-east of Lisbon. The owners Paulo and Alice Tavares da Silva bought Quinta de Chocapalha in the eighties, totally convinced about its true potential as a source of great...
Formerly known as Estremadura, the Lisboa wine region lies to the west and north of Portugal's capital city Lisbon. There is a lot of wine made here, much of it by co-operatives, in a wide variety of styles and qualities. This region...
Touriga Nacional is an indigenous Portuguese red wine grape variety considered by many to be Portugal's finest. Despite the low yields from its small grapes, it plays a big part in the blends used for ports, and is increasingly being used for table wine...
