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Porto Vintage 2017 75cl

DOC | Porto | Douro | Portugal
CHF 139.45
Évaluations et Scores
97 Robert Parker
The 2017 Vintage Port is a field blend, mostly Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinto Cão and Sousão, aged for 18 months in old wood vats. It comes in with 99 grams of residual sugar. This was bottled in May 2019, about a month before tasting, but I made sure at least some of it had a lot of air. Aromatic, wonderfully fragrant and laced with eucalyptus, this then shows typical Noval focus and power. A couple of hours in a glass simply increased the power. More intense than the very fine 2016, it grips the palate and shows rather significant astringency. As wonderfully aromatic as this is, there the 2016 might have the edge. Too closed and muscular once past the aromatics, this rather dry Port needs some time. It is harder to read than the 2016 was, but this should overtake it in time. Have some patience with this one.
97 Robert Parker
The 2017 Vintage Port is a field blend, mostly Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinto Cão and Sousão, aged for 18 months in old wood vats. It comes in with 99 grams of residual sugar. This was bottled in May 2019, about a month before tasting, but I made sure at least some of it had a lot of air. Aromatic, wonderfully fragrant and laced with eucalyptus, this then shows typical Noval focus and power. A couple of hours in a glass simply increased the power. More intense than the very fine 2016, it grips the palate and shows rather significant astringency. As wonderfully aromatic as this is, there the 2016 might have the edge. Too closed and muscular once past the aromatics, this rather dry Port needs some time. It is harder to read than the 2016 was, but this should overtake it in time. Have some patience with this one.
97 James Suckling
Big grip in this wine with dark blackberries, blueberries and floral notes. Fine tannins. Ripe but sweet and pretty. Shows a lovely finish. Try after 2027.
Producteur
Quinta Do Noval
Quinta do Noval est à l’origine du plus célèbre porto millésimé, le Naçional. Les traces de ce domaine remontent au début du 18ème siècle mais c’est à la fin du 19ème que la maison a réussi une prouesse : au lieu de surgreffer ses vignes sur des porte-greffes américains, pour lutter contre le fléau du phylloxera, elle a réussi par miracle à conserver des ceps d’origine portugaise, d’où ses flacons uniques de « Naçional ». Plus récemment, la maison a fait florès, tout comme les châteaux bordelais appartenant à la société d’assurances AXA Millésimes – tel Pichon-Longueville - sous la direction Christian Seely. Son vignoble, qui bénéficie d’un emplacement privilégié au cœur de la vallée du Douro, porte le même nom, Quinta do Noval, que la société de production de porto, fait unique dans la région. Ses cépages nobles s’agrippent à ses coteaux escarpés où ils prospèrent, donnant ainsi une très belle qualité de raisins. Sous l’égide d’António Agrellos, brillant directeur technique, la cuvée Naçional s’exprime de manière exubérante. Sa puissance et sa profondeur trouvent écho dans les notes terreuses et épicées à la pulpe de fruits noirs, typiques du Portugal, qui ne récompenseront les amateurs qu’au terme d’une bonne vingtaine d’années de garde.