Cheda Riesling 2015

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Keeping on the path of the Riesling, I have decided to try and see how the grape reveals itself in Portugal.

After having tried several ones from the southern plains of the country, mainly Tejo and Alentejo and being deeply impressed, I have now decided to see how it would be a bit more north in the Douro region.

This Cheda 2015 intensively reveals strong flowers taste perfectly balanced with some more traditional expressions of the grape, such as a strong minerality and slight oil scent.

Compared to most of the offers you can get around the Mosel region, this one reveals a maturation which sets him somewhere between a new and a late harvest, without being as sweet as it often happens with the later. This is mainly due to its mixed fermentation, being 50% done with contact with french oak, and the other half in stainless barrels.

Being a white wine already with five years, I could also notice some interesting evolution, reinforcing its strong gastronomic character, making it a perfect match for more complex fish plates such as codfish or even some poultry.

It is a great wine which perfectly translates the potential of this amazing grape.

It has also been a faithful companion to one of the most intensive reads I have had in these last times: Angie Thomas´ The Hate U Give, which somehow matches Enzo Silon Surin´s poem that I share with you:

Is there a place where black men can go
to be beautiful? Is there light there? Touch?
Is there comfort or room to raise their black
sons as anything other than a future asterisk,
at risk to be asteroid or rogue planet but not
comet—to be studded with awe and clamor
and admired for radial trajectories across
a dark sky made of asphalt and moonshine
to be celebs and deemed a magnificent sight?




16,5/20
Country: Portugal
Region: Douro
Grapes: Riesling
12,5%
Winemaker: N/A
Website: https://www.lavradoresdefeitoria.pt/pt/vinhos/chega-riesling-2015/
Location: Hamburg, Germany

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