Ferreira Vintage Porto 2016 Vinhas Velhas 0.75 LT

CASTES

70% Old Vines, 20% Touriga Nacional, 10% Sousão.

SERVICE SUGGESTION

If stored for a few years, it is natural for sediment to form in the bottle, which should be opened carefully and decanted for a better appreciation. It is a surprising wine that benefits from being opened some time before being consumed. Serve between 16ºC-18ºC.

VINIFICATION

Vinified from grapes from old vines on Sogrape farms in the Douro, with special relevance to Quinta do Porto, using traditional Port wine technology. After choosing the grapes, crushing and destemming, there is a very intense maceration during the period of alcoholic fermentation, through treading in temperature-controlled granite vats. The balance and harmony of this Vintage, as well as its body and structure, are obtained through the selection of grapes, the intensity of maceration and the choice of the moment to stop fermentation.

TEST RESULTS

Black color. Excellent complexity and intensity with balsamic notes such as resin and tobacco, floral notes of rock rose, spices such as pepper and cloves; Slightly minty and stony with hints of wet shale and light cocoa resulting from excellent maturation. In the mouth it is dense, pasty, with vibrant acidity that gives it an excellent balance, firm and robust tannins of great quality and even notes of green tea, floral cistus and basil and an extremely long, elegant and complex finish.

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