Touriga Nacional: the grape that closes the map at the Côa

Touriga Nacional is regarded as one of the most emblematic red grapes in Portugal — elegant and floral, with a profile of violet and orange blossom, and is often described as the backbone of the great Douro reds.

The queen grape at the Côa

In the Côa Valley, in the Douro Superior, Palato bottles it as a varietal: the Palato do Côa Touriga Nacional is 100% Touriga Nacional, DOC Douro, from Vila Nova de Foz Côa / Muxagata. It is the pure, direct expression of the queen grape, coming exactly from the territory that the protagonists of this series helped to open, to map and to name.

The complete chain

So the chain closes: the grape grows today in the Douro Superior that Dona Antónia helped to open, in the valley the Côa river drew and Forrester mapped — and reaches every bottle of Palato. A story of frontier, river and origin, summed up in a glass.