About this product
Portugal's most distinctive and historically resonant red wine — Alicante Bouschet (with red flesh, not just red skin) from Mouchão's ancient estate near Mourão, aged 3+ years in large wooden vats. Opaque ruby-black (the deepest red wine colour in Portugal); dark chocolate, tobacco, dried plum, coffee, and an extraordinary bitter-mineral finish. Traditional production unchanged for 120 years. Requires 10 years; ages for 40+.
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The wine's bitter chocolate and tobacco depth matches the Iberico pork's extraordinary fat richness; migas's earthiness and black olive bitterness echo the wine's own austere depth.
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The definitive Alentejo game pairing — hare's gamey depth and the wine's deep chocolate-tobacco character create a combination of intense regional authenticity.
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Mouchão's depth and bitter finish requires the salt-crystalline force of hard aged Alentejo sheep cheese; quince marmalade bridges the wine's bitter fruit character to the cheese's intense savouriness.
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