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Silvaspoons Vineyard, Lodi
TASTING NOTES:
The 2024 Touriga has a dark almost inky purple color with youthful hues. The aromas feature a scent I have come to call ‘Triple Berry Pie Filling” a dense concentrated mélange of dark fruits: blackberry, olallieberry, and huckleberry. Touriga is the most floral of the red grapes we work with. The 2024 vintage has a strong floral lift providing an unmistakable scent of both violets and lavender. The intensity of this year’s fruit casts a shadow over the bouquet. With some time in the glass subtle notes of caramel and toasted hazelnuts will emerge. The scent of this wine is primarily that of the aroma; ripe dark fruit and a floral perfume. On the pallet the flavors are delivered by a wine with a mouth coating viscosity that is both savory and succulent. Bright juicy flavors of black cherry, currants, and blueberries are married with toasty oak. The tannins are so mellow as to be nonexistent. The finish of crisp fruit and smoky oak lingers well after the wine is swallowed.
Oak Regime: 50% French Oak 21% American Oak 29% Neutral Oak
The global market for Port wine has declined 16% from 8.7 million cases in 2013 to just 7.3 million cases in 2023. This reduction in demand has growers in Portugal searching for other uses for their grapes traditionally used to produce the dessert wine Port. Many growers have turned to table wine as a potential home for their grapes no longer needed for Port. This has led to a search for which of the over 140 varieties used to produce Port is the most suitable for red table wine. To date the undisputed winner is Touriga. Touriga has quietly become the leading grape in Portugal for red table wine. Touriga produces full-bodied red wines with intense dark fruit (blackberry, plum, blueberry), floral violet and mint notes, and complex undertones of chocolate, licorice, spice (vanilla, nutmeg, pepper), and sometimes earthy minerality or tea. It's known for its powerful tannins and structure, often likened to Napa Cabernet or Barossa Shiraz, but with a unique Portuguese floral lift and aging potential.
We produce two Touriga wines, one from Ron Silva’s vineyard in the Alta Mesa District in Lodi and a second from our Peroni Ranch Estate vineyard adjacent to the winery. The Lodi wine is a midweight version of Touriga with a juicy succulence and soft tannins that do not require aging to provide a smooth richness to the finish. The Estate wine on the other hand has a bit more intensity and a year or two in the cellar may be in order.
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