The single-vineyard red 2018 Turris is the current release of a wine that continued being produced the same way as the first vintage (2012). It's from a special vineyard on black slate soils at 400 meters in altitude, so a cooler place with a field blend with lots of Touriga Franca, Alicante Bouschet, Tinta da Barca, Tinta Caravalha, etc., a very old head-pruned vineyard (unusual in Douro). The wine is savory, perfumed, elegant and insinuating. It comes from a cool year, and the wine is vibrant and undeveloped, aging very slowly. It fermented in stainless steel with 50% full clusters and was bottled after it spent one year in an old German foudre and was kept in bottle for two more years before it was released. It has a rare combination of Douro rusticity with elegance. Characterful. Some 2,600 bottles produced. It was bottled in March 2023. 2023-2034.
