Home > Angas & Bremer Touriga Nacional 2023

Angas & Bremer Touriga Nacional 2023

Share

If Malbec is not often seen as a solo varietal in this country, then Touriga Nacional is about as common as unicorns. This is the great grape of Portugal, especially for creating their incredible vintage and tawny ports. The Portuguese are now making some stunning stuff from it as table wines, as well. It would seem ideally suited to our vineyards. Maturation is in a mix of both French and American oak barrels. An opaque maroon hue, the nose offers an array of fragrances – soy, beef stock, blackberries, aniseed, black jellybeans, herbs, mulberries and chocolate mud cake. The palate is seamless and plush and we see notes of cloves and vegemite emerging. Good concentration, fine acidity, sleek tannins and excellent length all combine to make this a cracking drink and one which should remain so over the next ten to twelve years.

Ken Gargett

Contributor at Winepilot

Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.

Wine writer and critic