What is your top Douro (or Portuguese) wine you've had this year?
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What is your top Douro (or Portuguese) wine you've had this year?
With just three weeks left ... it's that time ... so do you have a single favorite or a list of the greats you have enjoyed this year?
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Re: What is your top Douro (or Portuguese) wine you've had this year?
Having been able to finally taste (and drink) a decent amount last week, I think that for me it's a toss-up between Casa Ferreirinha Colheita 1998 and Niepoort Batuta 2007. Completely different wines and both superb in their own right.
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Gotta say the 1990 Niepoort Robustus, what a mind blowing wine that was and I am very grateful for Luis opening this for us.
But the very close runner up was yesterday's 1998 Quinta do Crasto Vinha Maria Teresa
But the very close runner up was yesterday's 1998 Quinta do Crasto Vinha Maria Teresa
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Re: What is your top Douro (or Portuguese) wine you've had this year?
The one that i retained more vividly was the Quinta do Mouro Rotulo Dourado 2005 (Alentejo)...superb wine that i really recommend you to try and cellar!!!!!
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Re: What is your top Douro (or Portuguese) wine you've had this year?
For me there are two, one that I have in my cellar and one I get to taste at two (at most) wine-tasting events per year (but too expensive to purchase some bottles unfortunately ).
Quinta de Chocapalha Tinto 2003
Quinta do Vale D. Maria 2005 Curriculum Vitae ( at Euro 70 a bottle a little too expensive for me).
Quinta de Chocapalha Tinto 2003
Quinta do Vale D. Maria 2005 Curriculum Vitae ( at Euro 70 a bottle a little too expensive for me).
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Is that it, no one else has an opinion?
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Re: What is your top Douro (or Portuguese) wine you've had this year?
I'll go with Batuta 2004. I did open a bottle that I thought was defect. 24h later, I tried again the decanter and WOW! The wine had awaken to give a impressive show!
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Re: What is your top Douro (or Portuguese) wine you've had this year?
Frederick, I take that to mean it needs time. I don't intend to drink any of my bottles for a while.
I guess my best was a Barca Velha 1991 drunk last January. Sorry, no TN, but it didn't seem OTH, as some might worry.
I guess my best was a Barca Velha 1991 drunk last January. Sorry, no TN, but it didn't seem OTH, as some might worry.
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Re: What is your top Douro (or Portuguese) wine you've had this year?
Tough question.
Perhaps Ramos Pinto Duas Quinta Reserva or Symington's Post Scriptum
Perhaps Ramos Pinto Duas Quinta Reserva or Symington's Post Scriptum
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