Quinta da Romaneira Red (Douro)

Ficha técnica

Tipo

Red

Uva

Portuguese Red

País

Portugal

Denominação

Douro

Corpo

full

Acidez

high

Tanino

high

Doçura

dry

Safras avaliadas

• 201493 pts

  This rich wine is concentrated and ripe with black fruits and juicy acidity. With its density, fruits, wood-aging and complex texture it provides a beautiful example of a Douro blend. Minerality in this still-young wine comes through strongly. Drink from 2019.

• 201392 pts

  Aged for 14 months in wood, this wine is smoothly structured and offers considerable dark fruits and rich tannins. It has power and concentration from the texture and the fruit. It is an ageworthy wine from a great estate. Drink from 2018.

• 201293 pts

  The estate wine of Romaneira is aged for 14 months in wood. This doesn't mask the fruit although it certainly gives it extra richness. Dark and structured, the black fruit is laced with licorice, spice and firm tannins. The wine will benefit from time, so drink from 2018.

• 201192 pts

  A solid, firm wine with a great rapport between the black berry fruits, juicy acidity and dark tannins. It has a fresh element along with a powerful structure and dense mineral texture. It will age well, so drink from 2017.

• 201089 pts

  Put two powerful, warm-climate grapes together and you get a rich, densely fruity and structured wine. Solid tannins complement a concentrated palate full of ripe red-berry fruits. Drink now, and until 2020.

• 200993 pts

  From a great year in the Douro, this is a complex, impressive wine. It has elegance rather than brute power, pushed forward by smooth yet dry tannins and ripe black fruits. A touch of spice, balanced acidity and a great potential for aging. Drink from 2016.

• 200894 pts

  Since we last reviewed a vintage of Romaneira, with the 2005 wine, the estate has moved closer to realizing its potential. This is an impressive, powerful yet elegant wine. Its dark fruits are sustained by wood and leavened by acidity. It has a great sense of style and considera…

• 200489 pts

  The first fruits of the renaissance of this grand Douro quinta (which now also houses a luxury hotel). It is huge, revealing up-front, modern, polished black fruits that would not be out of place in Australia. Maybe the typicity is lacking, but the wine certainly has grandeur, p…