Vintage Port
Douro, Portugal
2020
2019
2018
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RP
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Tasting Notes
A full-bodied port, with ripe and soft tannins, excellent structure, and complexity.
Vineyards
This Vintage Port is a field blend from old vines in the valley of Rio Torto.
Winemaking
The grapes (70% with stalks) were fermented for 4 days in “lagares” with periodic foot-trodding. The wine is then aged for 21 months in stainless steel vats.
Technical Information
- Vintage:
- 2020
- Alcohol:
- 19.5%
- Region:
- Douro
- Varietals:
- 100% Old-Vine Field Blend from the Valley of Rio Torto
Accolades
James Suckling
February 2023
This shows notes of ripe blackberries and blueberries with orange peel and sweet spices. Firm and chewy with a full body and medium sweetness. It shows youth and crunchiness now, yet quite tight with a chalky finish. Try after 2026.
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
August 2022
This unusually dry Vintage Port is stern and has some power, but it lacks that big, pure and bold fruit this normally shows. It is still well done, but I'd give this one a bit longer than normal in the cellar, even if it is not impossibly astringent. It has a real backbone, and the fruit needs to develop. It will show better in the early 2030s.
Wine Spectator
February 2023
This expressive version leads with violet and graphite notes, showing a solid core of blackberry and black currant preserves waiting to unwind. Reveals a subtle tug of warm earth through the finish.
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