For The Love Of Port

According to Vinho Grandes Escolhas (and confirmed by others) Graham launches a Quinta do Tua Vinhas Velhas VP 2022. Only 6600 bottles have been produced.

Paul C. Metman wrote:According to Vinho Grandes Escolhas (and confirmed by others) Graham launches a Quinta do Tua Vinhas Velhas VP 2022. Only 6600 bottles have been produced.

Tua is an excellent vineyard, directly east of Malvedos and across the river Tua. Very cool they finally bottled it on its own.

Andy Velebil wrote: ↑Mon Jul 01, 2024 5:07 am

Paul C. Metman wrote:According to Vinho Grandes Escolhas (and confirmed by others) Graham launches a Quinta do Tua Vinhas Velhas VP 2022. Only 6600 bottles have been produced.

Tua is an excellent vineyard, directly east of Malvedos and across the river Tua. Very cool they finally bottled it on its own.

It may be cool to be bottled, but the price is hot: € 135.00 in PT for a SQVP!!

Paul C. Metman wrote: ↑Mon Jul 01, 2024 8:54 am

Andy Velebil wrote: ↑Mon Jul 01, 2024 5:07 am

Paul C. Metman wrote:According to Vinho Grandes Escolhas (and confirmed by others) Graham launches a Quinta do Tua Vinhas Velhas VP 2022. Only 6600 bottles have been produced.

Tua is an excellent vineyard, directly east of Malvedos and across the river Tua. Very cool they finally bottled it on its own.

It may be cool to be bottled, but the price is hot: € 135.00 in PT for a SQVP!!

It's an "old vines" wine. It's being positioned as something more like Vargellas Vinha Velha or Vesuvio Capela. It's basically a super cuvee, though not on the level of Graham's The Stone Terraces (nor, obviously, Noval Nacional).

Glenn E. wrote:

Paul C. Metman wrote: ↑Mon Jul 01, 2024 8:54 am

Andy Velebil wrote: ↑Mon Jul 01, 2024 5:07 am
Tua is an excellent vineyard, directly east of Malvedos and across the river Tua. Very cool they finally bottled it on its own.

It may be cool to be bottled, but the price is hot: € 135.00 in PT for a SQVP!!

It's an "old vines" wine. It's being positioned as something more like Vargellas Vinha Velha or Vesuvio Capela. It's basically a super cuvee, though not on the level of Graham's The Stone Terraces (nor, obviously, Noval Nacional).

Maybe it is on the same level as some super cuvées? No one has had it that I know, so…

And IIRC it’s mostly (all?) old field blend vineyard.

Andy Velebil wrote: ↑Mon Jul 01, 2024 10:54 am

Glenn E. wrote:

Paul C. Metman wrote: ↑Mon Jul 01, 2024 8:54 am
It may be cool to be bottled, but the price is hot: € 135.00 in PT for a SQVP!!

It's an "old vines" wine. It's being positioned as something more like Vargellas Vinha Velha or Vesuvio Capela. It's basically a super cuvee, though not on the level of Graham's The Stone Terraces (nor, obviously, Noval Nacional).

Maybe it is on the same level as some super cuvées? No one has had it that I know, so…

And IIRC it’s mostly (all?) old field blend vineyard.

Yeah, exactly. I'm thinking it's a VVV or Capela level super cuvee. (Or even Croft Serikos, assuming they ever make it again.)

As you and I have discussed before, it seems like the only one of these new breed super cuvees that actually feels like a better Port than the house fully-declared VP is Graham's The Stone Terraces. (And obviously Noval Nacional, but that's the OG super cuvee.) The rest feel like different expressions of what nature gave the producer - either an old vines expression, or a specific vineyard's unique style, etc. They aren't necessarily better than the house's fully-declared VP, they're just different and interesting.

But yeah... probably shouldn't judge it yet because we haven't actually had the opportunity to taste it. I'm just guessing at this point.

In my "wine room" deciding which 12 to pack to bring to the USA, I am staring at this bottle of Graham's Tua VP and looking forward to my 2022 tastings coming up when cooler weather prevails. I have not had a Tua labeled bottle in the past, at least that I can recall. I have not read this whole thread, but as I look at that bottle nearly every day, I decided to pop in here. Should be fun, but it will be buried in a slew of other 2022's and tasted blind, so I will have to wait.

RH

There's a 1987 Quinta do Tua bottling, which I have had just the once, four years ago. It was rather nice. It was also, I believe, the only bottle that I have ever seen.