For The Love Of Port

2004 Dao Sul "Quinta das Tecedeiras" Reserva - was the winner of all red wines that I tasted at the IVDP tasting yesterday. The gal pouring, Lucia, mentioned that the 2003 was supposedly even better as it had won a GOLD medal at the Brussel's event. The 2004 only had won the Silver medal, but I can say it was a real winner. TN to follow.

This was also hands-down my favorite dry wine of the event. Just a stunning wine IMO. IIRC, its not available in the states yet But hopefully some will make it over hear soon..I know I'll buy some when it does.

Both Kris Henderson and also Stewart Todd really enjoyed this wine.

I am hoping to help them get into this country because the quality overall is impressive! And then there is the pricing. Quite reasonable and the type of Douro wines that I would cellar by the case. Let's hope they don't have a hard time getting into the USA market which could use exactly this combined maketability dynamic for a fine Portuguese producer.

The bottle in the initial post would probably retail in the $30-35 range and that is their TOP priced DOC. I tasted wines that could possibly be sold for as little as $10 that were excellent "Monday through Thursday with dinner" wines from the Douro and there were a few in this price range and also above by $5-10 or so.

I was given a bottle of this wine to taste and will bring it to share with my brother and our families at Thanksgiving with the proper decant, so that I can provide a more accurate assessment over a few hours rather than a snapshot view in five minutes.