Quinta do Vale Doña Maria, D.O.C. Porto
Quinta do Vale Doña Maria is the property of Cristiano van Zeller, former owner of legendary Port house, Noval. After his family sold Noval, Cristiano set out to promote and foster a certain attitude and marketing thrust in the Douro - the specialist small-volume vineyard-based Quinta. He is unarguably the driving force behind 'The Douro Boys'.
Vale Doña Maria is situated in an off-shoot (cooler) river valley to the Douro, Rio Torto. It's a property long held in ownership of Cristiano's wife Joana's family. To date the Quinta has 16 hectares of fully owned very old vineyards (50 years+), around 5 more hectares of vineyards under management and a new 3 hectare planting of 6 year old vines.
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Porto |
$37.00 |
12 |
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Having just under four years cask maturation, this is very elegant, unfiltered vintage port material showing gun-metal length and elegance. Power is entirely restrained. Blue-note, sarsaparilla fruit has lovely tannin definition that stands up well in bottle, becoming more and more interesting over several days of being open. |
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Porto |
$145.00 |
6 |
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Crushed pomegranate, hung meat, dense, fresh black fruit absolutely wedded to its soil: minerally, with soft earthy acid; final impressions of black bean, cola, canned cherry. Lovely succulent fruit, very silky fruit tannin. |
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