Tinto Roriz is the Portuguese name for Tempranillo, and wineries in Portugal have been using the grape for production of high quality wines since the mid 20th Century. Tempranillo wines tend to have spicy, herbal, tobacco-like characteristics with ripe strawberry and red cherry fruits. Although it produces fresh, vibrantly fruit driven wines it really comes into its own when oak aged, and its flavours harmonise perfectly with the French and American oak, to produce rich, powerful and concentrated wines which can be extraordinarily long-lived.