Quinta do Vallado Reserva Field Blend Red (Douro)

Ficha técnica

Tipo

Red

Uva

Portuguese Red

País

Portugal

Denominação

Douro

Corpo

full

Acidez

high

Tanino

high

Doçura

dry

Safras avaliadas

• 201495 pts

  For six generations, the Ferreira family has owned this estate, a parcel of which boasts 100-year-old vines planted as a traditional field blend. It yields an impressive, serious and ageworthy wine, with dense tannins, powerful ripe black-plum and damson fruit and a tight charac…

• 201394 pts

  Most of the Douro's older vineyards produce field blends from the random planting of vines in the past. In this wine, some of the vines are over 80 years old. It makes for a complex wine, dense with tannins and packed with ripe red fruits and acidity. This impressive wine is sti…

• 201295 pts

  In the old times, a Douro vineyard held a muddle of any number of different local grapes. This wine, from 80-year-old vines, is a tribute to the old style of vineyard planting. It's firm, very concentrated and dark, with stunning tannins and rich fruit. The black plum-skin textu…

• 201093 pts

  Using a blend of grapes sourced from old vines, this is powerful, dense and very concentrated. At the same time, an elegance lightens the wine's weight and integrates all of its elements. This serious, structured offering should be aged for 4–5 years.

• 200994 pts

  An impressive wine from old vines. The 2009 has an extra depth of richness and full character. The black fruits go deep into the wine, hugely rich while still keeping a dark structure. Powerful and needing aging.

• 200794 pts

  From old, mixed planting vineyards in the Quinta do Vallado, this is an impressively complex blend of flavors, from rich spice, smooth tannins, the richest plum juice and a gorgeous, opulent texture. It is ripe, drinkable now, but likely to benefit from several years aging.