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2003 Quinta do Noval

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December 31, 2023 - $52

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RATINGS

96Wine Spectator

What a nose. Ripe fruit, with chocolate, blackberry and raisin. Full-bodied and medium-sweet, with velvety tannins. Finish goes on and on. Layered and wonderful.

94The Wine Advocate

Revealing dates, black cherries, copious flowers, and plums. Full-bodied, broad, and lush, is harmonious and exhibits stupendous purity of fruit. Blueberries, cherries, and candied strawberries found in its nuanced, lengthy, plum-laced core

94Stephen Tanzer

Sweet aromas of black cherry, cassis, licorice, molasses, minerals, toffee and violet. Dense, sweet and pliant, with outstanding precision and depth of flavor. The explosive, mounting finish offers a fine dusting of ripe, suave tannins...

17.5Jancis Robinson

...rather interesting and captivating already! Very competent and lively...

REGION

Portugal

Portugal is best known for its two legendary fortified wines, Port and Madeira, but it also produces significant amounts of red and white table wine. In most years it ranks around the 10th or 11th largest wine producer in the world. In 2013, for instance, Portugal was the 11th largest producer just after Germany. Wine has always been produced in Portugal and in fact the country was the first to organize an appellation system, which it did in 1756, nearly 200 years before the French set up their appellations. The highest quality wines are labeled D.O.C. for Denominaçào de Origem Controlada. Many of the most innovative winemakers today, however, are avoiding the appellation system, which they deem too stifling for modern winemaking practices. The Douro Valley is the nation’s most important wine producing region, and it is the capital of Port production. The Portuguese island of Madeira, located 400 miles west of Morocco, is the nation’s other famous wine region, having produced Madeira for export for more than 400 years. Many red and white wine grapes grow in Portugal, though the best known is Touriga Nacional, the red grape used for Port and, increasingly, high quality table wines. Touriga Nacional produces dark, tannic, fruity wines.