Monte Velho, Vinho Tinto - 2020

Name: Monte Velho, Vinho Tinto
Brand: Monte Velho
SKU: 24654
Price: 9.96 USD
Availability: OutOfStock

Item # 24654 750mL

Made from a blend of the regionally important Trincadeira and Aragonez grape varieties, this is a food wine with lots of dark fruit, a medium body, and grippy tannins. Drink with grilled red meat.

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Color

Red

Vintage

2020

Country

Portugal

Region

Alentejo

Producer

Monte Velho

Grape Variety

Trincadeira

Aragonez

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Staff Pick Notes

When customers ask me for value, we often end up in Portugal; when they ask me for a specifics, I often find myself holding this bottle. A mainstay in my father’s daily rotation of robust reds, Monte Velho satisfies like few other everyday table wines can. Made by one of Alentejo’s most storied producers, Herdade do Esporão, the wine overdelivers in its fresh and lifted black-fruited tones supported by subtle stemmy tannins. In the south coast of Massachusetts, an area with a large Portuguese immigrant population, you’d be hard-pressed to find a store or restaurant that doesn’t carry Monte Velho, and for good reason—it’s what the people want.

- DP

Glossary

Alentejo

Alentejo is Portugal's "New World," producing extroverted, ripe wines in comparatively modern styles. The region lies at the the far southern end of Portugal, inland and south from Lisbon, touching the Spanish border on the east. The climate is, as expected, quite hot and decidedly un-Atlantic. The scenery consists of large, undulating plains that experience far more continental climate conditions, and the wines produced here are indeed quite a far cry from the earthy, terroir-driven wines of...

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...