floral-laced style

Drink now-2020+ Tasted December 2008

From fully ripe grapes from younger vines and bottled with 75 grams of residual sugar and 7

I have long adored the 2004s from the Côtes des Blancs

There is a whiff of petrol character to the green apple

Quinta Noval, Colheita other_regions floral-laced styleAccording to winemaker Carlos Agrello, colheita port represents only 1. 5% of port production. Reddish tawny colour, smelling of dark Oxford marmalade, bitter orange. Intensely aromatic and still structured by the tannins and still showing some red fruit character under all that tertiary evolution. Dried fruits, raisins but not raisiny like an oxidised wine. Powerful and extremely fresh. Such a great style of port. (JH)