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José Maria da Fonseca, Colecção Privada Domingos Soares Franco Moscatel - 2007

Name: José Maria da Fonseca, Colecção Privada Domingos Soares Franco Moscatel
Brand: Jose Maria da Fonseca
SKU: 46845
Price: 49.96 USD
Availability: InStock

Item # 46845 750mL

This rosé dessert wine comes from the very rare purple Moscatel grape. The wine spends several months on the skins, contributing to its rich hue. Once the wine is fortified to preserve sweetness, the wine is aged in used oak. A rich and unctuous sweet wine with aromas of dried fruit and nuts. pair with São Jorge Cheese.

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Color

White

Vintage

2007

Country

Portugal

Region

Setúbal

Producer

Jose Maria da Fonseca

Grape Variety

Moscatel

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Staff Pick Notes

With six generations of ownership and winemaking in the family, Domingos Soares Franco has taken his education from his tenure at University of California Davis along with the family's access to 650 hectares of land to experiment with an array of techniques and varietals. Part of the winery's private collection, this dessert wine is made using a rare, indigenous purple Muscat (Muscatel Roxo) and is fortified using a grape brandy made entirely from this dark-fleshed grape. Aged in used oak until its bottling, this is viscous and alluring in the best ways. Orange marmalade, clover honey, peach, apricot, and star anise, this wine is bursting with all manners of tropical fruit while having racy acidity and slight tannic structure to cut through the concentrated sweetness.

- JOS

Glossary

Portugal

The Dão and the Douro are the most important regions as far as red Portuguese table wine is concerned. Douro wines tend to be a bit fuller and fleshier than their Dão counterparts, which are generally lighter and higher in acidity. Reds from both regions are dense, rustic, and well-balanced. They also show their terroir quite clearly, and represent a great alternative to the modern fruit-driven style. Vinho Verde is Portugal’s most famous white wine. Literally translated as "green wine," it...