Udaca Dao Red 2010

Udaca 2010 Vinho Tinto Dão DOC | Touriga Nacional, Alfrochiero, Tinta-Roriz, and Jean | 13.5% | This meatier, dry Portuguese red abounds with bright cherry and a nice breadth of spice, along with a cocoa and sassafras that bears a strong familial resemblance to the strong Ports we know and love so well except that here, with the same grapes going into a dry wine, this is simply a delicious example of Portugal’s sleeper category: the balanced reds for the table. A delicious red from the high elevation vineyards of the Dão –Portugal’s highland between Lisbon and Porto that ranges from 1,300 to 2,600 feet. Concentrated and all its own.
Wine review by Nicholas Livingston, January 3, 2014 (Root Day)