2018 Casa Ferreirinha Quinta da Leda

The 2018 Quinta da Leda is a blend of 41% Touriga Franca, 34% Touriga Nacional, 13% Tinto Cão and 12% Tinta Roriz, aged for 18 months in an equal mixture of new and used French oak. It comes in at 13.9% alcohol. Showing some charred beef on the finish, this does have the advantage of somewhat more sedate tannins—somewhat. This has good juicy fruit, but it doesn't seem as classic as some years in the flavor profile. It's a good but not really great Leda. Here, unlike with the 2017, the fruit doesn't compensate for some rusticity.