Quinta do Tedo Vintage Port 2015
Regular price $74.00
Overview: From field blends (18+ indigenous varietals) dominated by Touriga Nacional, Quinta do Tedo Vintage’s vineyards average 40+ years and Quinta do Tedo Savedra’s Vintage, our oldest and most prestigious parcel, averages 60+ years. A Vintage Porto can be enjoyed immediately, but promises a greater evolution of flavor and complexity if aged in the bottle, and the aging potential is for decades, if you can resist!
Style: Classic Vintage Porto. Vintage Port - a.k.a. “The King of Portos", the most prestigious Porto from a superb, classic single harvest. Bottle-aged.
Age: Aged 2 years in large neutral French oak tanks.
Grapes: Touriga Nacional and the oldest vineyards (+40 years old).
Tasting notes: Great structure, sweet, intense, balanced. Long finish with high precision.
Enjoy with: Cheeses, chocolates.
Color: Deep ruby with purple highlights.
Aroma: Aromas of black fruit (blackberry), cassis, blueberry and plum. Notes of rock rose and dark chocolate. Very complex.
Alcohol: 19.50%
Notes: Enjoy now or cellar to 2045 - 2050.
About Quinta do Tedo: In the heart of Portugal’s Douro Valley, surrounded by terraced vineyards that climb high above the dramatic confluence of the Douro and Tedo rivers, sits an 18th-century estate, Quinta do Tedo.
The Quinta’s 100% estate-grown organic grapes come from 37 acres of class "A" vineyards, the highest rating from the Portuguese Instituto do Vinhos do Douro e Porto (comparable to France's Grand Cru). Less than 2% of Douro Valley appellation's rough 100,000 acres are class "A". This rating is subject to soil make-up, vineyard exposure, grape variety, vine spacing and altitude, to list only a couple of the 24 criteria considered(!).
Quinta do Tedo is a labor of love, family owned and operated - which is becoming harder and harder to find in this famed region dominated by large wine conglomerates. Enjoy these amazing wines!
