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TASTING NOTES
Deep dark ruby-purple with a spicy and wild nose, with soft velvety black fruits, good freshness and balance. Great elegance and great power. Full-bodied and fleshy with firm backbone of tannins and a long finish.
Very seductive and perfectly delicious now, but will of course repay decades of bottle ageing and reveal its full potential over time.
GRAPE VARIETIES
Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinto Cão, Tinta Francisca, Sousão
VINIFICATION
Grapes are trodden by foot to obtain the must, then during fermentation macerate to obtain the best possible extraction in the lagares, the traditional stone vats from the Quinta.
MATURING
It is matured for 18 months in old wooden casks in the air-conditioned cellars of the Quinta, at the demarcated region of the Douro Valley before bottling.
WINE ANALYSES
Alcohol: 19,5%vol
Residual Sugar: 101 g/dm3
Total Acidity
2014 Quinta do Noval Vintage Port released
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2014 Quinta do Noval Vintage Port released
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