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The Wines Coates Langhorne Creek Touriga Nacional 2009 Touriga Nacional as a dry red has great potential in Australia as the sugar accumulation keeps to the pace of flavour and tannin ripening, even at low 3-4 hL/ ha cropping levels. This is generally the last variety picked by Coates Wines during vintage. The wine shows amazing feminine floral scents for the first year in bottle before taking on a brooding, masculine character with time not dissimilar to Mourvedre. The 2009 edition is the ‘biggest’ Touriga so far at 14.0% alc/vol; 2007 came in at 13.2% alc and 2010 at a 12.3% alc. Price – $35 Production – 300 cases made. Alcohol – 14.0% Winemaking – VERY rapid wild yeast ferment in open concrete fermenters followed by 14 days cuvaison time. Matured in French oak (20% new Nadalie Marsannay and Remond) barriques for 18 months. Bottled unfined and unfiltered in October 2010.