Herdade do Rocim, Mariana Branco 2017, Vinho Regional Alentejano, Portugal

Tasting Note: A white blend from Portugal that abounds with a cacophony of delicious tropical-fruit flavors and robust acidity that refreshes your palate.

Pale-intensity lemon in color, this wine has an aromatic, medium-plus-intensity nose of lychee, gooseberry, pineapple, quince, red apple, honey dew melon and blossom.

On the palate the dry, medium-plus-bodied wine is creamy in texture, with medium-plus-intensity tropical fruit flavors suggested on the nose supported by medium-plus acidity and completing with an orange-citrus-infused finish.

The wine is bright with midpalate complexity and a slight autolytic character.

A white blend that offers more than most and pleases the senses.

Bottle Note: From the terraces of the Rocim Winery, you can see the tower of Beja Castle, reminding us of Mairana Alcoforado, the cloistered nun as she wrote to her lover. Mariana Alcoforado is the author of Letters of a Portugese Nun, a famous classic of universal literature. “I’m alive, unfaithful as I am!, and I do as much to preserve my life as to lose it! Oh, I’m hanging my head in shame! (…)” In Cartas Portugusas. Produced from grapes: Antão Vaz (60%), Arinto (30%), Alvarinho (10%).

This wine was submitted for review.