Touriga Wines

Deepish red/purple colour. Meaty reductive and somewhat animal aromas at first, airing to reveal more dark fruits, especially plum. Medium-bodied at best, with soft, fleshy tannins, blackberry, plum and a hint of jam. Smooth and succulent, with ge...

The recipe is as unlikely as it is compelling. Take a late pick port variety on old vines, harvest it early and do everything possible to highlight brightness, freshness, aromatics and spice while downplaying tannin and oak. Toby Barlow's creative...

A terrific wine that again reinforces the promise of this grape in the Langhorne Creek region. There s little in the way of minty regional characters but plenty in the way of cassis, cherry and meaty charcuterie notes; this opens up really well. T...

Youthful purple-crimson; as weird a blend as you could even come across: touriga, shiraz and pinot noir; a fresh medium-bodied wine with both red and black fruits and controlled tannins. Points for audacity.

A juicy and fresh, slightly savoury wine, with a light- to medium bodied personality; fine tannins and lively acidity provide length and interest on the moderately long finish.

The light red colour always comes as a shock when the grapes are used to make a table wine; has some of the mouthfeel and structure of Sangiovese, but the flavours are in a different red fruit spectrum, more tangy and zesty.

Powerful, full bodied wine with excellent intensity of lifted ripe plum fruit and perfectly balanced by the sweet new oak.

A bright and lively young touriga that offers up plenty of appealing young red fruits, some plums, blueberries and cassis fruits - gently earthy and nicely concentrated young stuff. The palate's supple and juicy, really in the medium-weight spectr...

This is a terrific vintage style that's really in its stride at the moment. Plenty of finer floral lift on the nose here; floral spirit adds a top note, and below there are red and purple berries, red perfume, liquorice and spice. The palate has e...

Dense purple; dark berry fruit aromas darken further on the wild herb, leather, licorice and earth overtones to the intense fruit; is not extractive or heavy; well balanced.

A touriga national made in vintage style, with nicely matched spirit that elevates the floral purple aromatics nicely, this has good purity, dark berries, a little spice and blacker tarry accents. The palate has direct, striding purple-fruit flavo...

A very interesting wine, with an array of red fruit characters, some unusual (pastille/ raspberry), others more commonly encountered; the tannins that I expected were notable more for their absence than presence. Neither fined nor filtered.

Quite unlike most Australian vintage port styles (which tend to be rather black and sweet), this is, instead, quite savoury, raisiny, spiritous and complex. Light and elegant, too. Good wine - and great to be able to buy something with that much b...

A drier finish and the grape touriga underlines the point that this is an attempt at a more Portuguese style. It's still very fresh and vibrantly youthful, with a floral-peppery blend of fruit and spirit on the bouquet. It's soft and nicely balanc...

Spicy, cedary, dusky fruit flavours; prune and blackberry; good tannins. Interesting use of a Port varietal.

Under and over-ripe red whose herbal, forest floor and jammy red berry aromas are given gentle oak. Forward, rather sappy and vegetal, supported by cedar/vanilla oak and soft tannins, it lacks sufficient weight of ripe fruit.