2000 Quinta do Portal Colheita -- bottled 2010
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 2:17 pm
Quinta do Portal Colheita 2000 - bottled 2010; 20% abv; 120 g/l sugar; c.30€ in the Finnish monopoly
The more I drink port, the more I gravitate towards these oxidative styles. In fact - and here I must don a tin helmet - I haven't opened a VP in about a year! But tawnies and colheitas have a refreshing character that I particularly like: though Port is never high in acid, would it be right to say that these styles are relatively higher in acidity than VPs or is the freshness from something else? Well whatever it is from this Colheita was an attractive wine: spicy and slightly oxidative aromas with an almost citric lift to the fragrances; more savoury than such upfront, fruity Tawnies as Graham's 10yo but still with obvious and youthful fruit. Very sweet but with refreshing qualities to match. Nice! Perhaps even very nice! (Oddly enough, I've only seen one other note on this wine and it wasn't a positive one. So what are forumites' views on Portal's Colheitas and Tawnies in general?)
The more I drink port, the more I gravitate towards these oxidative styles. In fact - and here I must don a tin helmet - I haven't opened a VP in about a year! But tawnies and colheitas have a refreshing character that I particularly like: though Port is never high in acid, would it be right to say that these styles are relatively higher in acidity than VPs or is the freshness from something else? Well whatever it is from this Colheita was an attractive wine: spicy and slightly oxidative aromas with an almost citric lift to the fragrances; more savoury than such upfront, fruity Tawnies as Graham's 10yo but still with obvious and youthful fruit. Very sweet but with refreshing qualities to match. Nice! Perhaps even very nice! (Oddly enough, I've only seen one other note on this wine and it wasn't a positive one. So what are forumites' views on Portal's Colheitas and Tawnies in general?)