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Quinta das Setencostas 2013 Alenquer DOC - Portugal Casa Santos Lima SAQ Price: $ 13.85 Coming from Alenquer, a wine region of Lisbon that perhaps we know a little bit, which has a pleasant oceanic influence, this is a red and attractive Portuguese wine. It was a good choice to buy a bottle of this Quinta das Setencostas, which was timidly peering out at the SAQ gondolas, a delicious wine made from a blend of purely native grapes such as Castelao, Camarote, Tinta Miuda and Preto Martinho, also known as Tinta Negra Mole. In aromas, it has endless notes of ripe black fruits mixed with cinnamon, green pepper, smoke and caramel. That symbolic sweetness that we can appreciate in the nose also appears in the mouth, with a kind, enveloping, unctuous and succulent attack. A wine that has a very intense structure and fruit, a very pleasant palate and a persistent and balanced finish. This is another of those Portuguese wines that represent in general terms the identity of the Po...

LAB 2015 Vinho regional de Lisboa Casa Santos Lima Portugal SAQ Price: $9.20 Well, well ... attention, attention, I bring to the ring box of wines of less than 10 dollars a new and fabulous exponent difficult to beat! From the internationally recognized Casa Santos Lima wine cellar, LAB is a Lisbon regional wine produced with the main red grape varieties of the area: Castelao, Syrah, Tinta Roriz and Touriga Nacional. Lisbon is one of the most productive, polyvalent and heterogeneous wine areas of Portugal. Its proximity to the Atlantic Ocean brings what is necessary for the vines to magnifically grow thanks to the climate and soils and so to produce generous and high quality wines in all dimensions. Don't restrict yourself with the prejudice of its price, I invite you with absolute conviction to discover this red wine of great body and personality. In the nose, intense aromas of plum jam and chocolate predominate. In the mouth it is ample, unctuous and round, very ...