the Douro managerie
Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 12:18 am
Last night I hosted one of my local tasting groups and we had a good number of Douro wines and I opened a youngster of a Port for them too.
The Douro wines:
a. 2000 Quinta do Fojo - Fojo - the best of the bunch outside of one later on
b. 2004 Quinta de la Rosa Reserva - Other than the oak which was a lot less the 2nd day, this was a really fun wine and would be really wonderful in 5+ years.
c. 2005 Churchill Estates - Very sound bottle that was left somehow from the FTLOP weekend. Thank you who ever brought this over. Nice wine! Long life ahead.
d. 2006 Quinta do Crasto Vinha Velha - loverly.
e. 2005 CARM - surprising better than I ever expected.
f. 2005 Churchill's Quinta da Gricha - whoa baby, a hell of a joy ride. Nice upside!
g. 2005 Quinta do Vale d. Maria - the winner of the night for me. Still deciding between 93/94 points. Gorgeous and one of the finest I have had from the 2005 vintage.
The Port is a young but beautiful rendition and ready to go now or 10 more years, not a LT ager, but so perfectly balanced.
1992 Quinta da Cavadinha (Warre's)
tonight my wife and I finished off the last few ounces in all the red wine bottles. Great fun and smoother and less insane tannins.
Full tasting notes will appear in the March newsletter.
The Douro wines:
a. 2000 Quinta do Fojo - Fojo - the best of the bunch outside of one later on
b. 2004 Quinta de la Rosa Reserva - Other than the oak which was a lot less the 2nd day, this was a really fun wine and would be really wonderful in 5+ years.
c. 2005 Churchill Estates - Very sound bottle that was left somehow from the FTLOP weekend. Thank you who ever brought this over. Nice wine! Long life ahead.
d. 2006 Quinta do Crasto Vinha Velha - loverly.
e. 2005 CARM - surprising better than I ever expected.
f. 2005 Churchill's Quinta da Gricha - whoa baby, a hell of a joy ride. Nice upside!
g. 2005 Quinta do Vale d. Maria - the winner of the night for me. Still deciding between 93/94 points. Gorgeous and one of the finest I have had from the 2005 vintage.
The Port is a young but beautiful rendition and ready to go now or 10 more years, not a LT ager, but so perfectly balanced.
1992 Quinta da Cavadinha (Warre's)
tonight my wife and I finished off the last few ounces in all the red wine bottles. Great fun and smoother and less insane tannins.
Full tasting notes will appear in the March newsletter.