2017 | Quinta do Vesuvio | Vintage Tappit Hen 2.25L

Introduction

Dessert Wine: 2017 | Quinta do Vesuvio | Vintage Tappit Hen 2.25L

This is a powerful, attention-grabbing wine, with taut muscularity. It offers magnificent aromas of rockrose, mint and hints of ginger.

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Producer: Quinta do Vesuvio

Ratings: WA | 99 JS | 95

Vintage: 2017

Size: 2.25L

ABV: 20%

Varietal: Port Blend Red

Country/Region: Portugal, Douro

This is a powerful, attention-grabbing wine, with taut muscularity. It offers magnificent aromas of rockrose, mint and hints of ginger.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: The 2017 Vintage Port is a blend of 33% Touriga Nacional, 35% Touriga Franca, 15% Souso and 12% Alicante Bouschet, plus miscellaneous others filling out the blend. This was bottled about a month before tasting after 18 months in seasoned vats, but the just-bottled sample was not really ready. This was instead a pre-bottling sample. It comes in with 115 grams of residual sugar.

• James Suckling: Finished aromas of crushed berry, graphite and stone. Full body, very sweet with a tangy almost sweet and sour character. Distinct flavors of dried oranges and dark berries. Medium tannin structure. Very ripe yet fresh.

Producer Information

Quinta do Vesuvio is a Portuguese wine estate high in the rugged, arid upper Douro, producing a range of table wines and Ports. It is owned by the Symington group of wineries alongside the likes of Graham’s, Warre’s and Dow’s. There are 133 hectares (329 acres) of vines at the quinta, that range from 425ft (130m) above sea level at the river’s edge to 1740ft (530m) at the top of the ridge. Being so far inland, the diurnal temperature variation is extreme, which means the grapes retain acidity as they ripen. In the winery, grape treading by foot still takes place, a traditional which dates back to the estate’s foundation in the early 19th Century. It takes approximately 50 people at least two hours to tread one lagar (a traditional granite, open vat used for grape fermentation). The Vesuvio wine range includes Douro DOC wines as well as Port produced from Touriga Franca, Touriga Nacional and Tinta Amarela. The Quinta do Vesuvio Vintage is the standard Port offering, while Capela do Vesuvio is only released in tiny quantities in exceptional years.