Quinta da Devesa 2018 Vintage Port

€ 53.00

Sweet and light on opening, not showing much concentration, this does better with structure. It has some serious pop on the finish, eventually overwhelming the sweet fruit. There's a real backbone. The next day, it had fleshed out a bit too. That's just what it needed in order to shine. It had notably improved and was downright impressive, the mid-palate now coming closer to balancing the pure power. This has a lot to offer—and a lot more than I thought on my first tastes—but it needs some time to make its case better and demonstrate that all its parts are in balance. There were 3,000 bottles produced.

Food pairing

A delicious digestive, but can also be accompanied by rich aged cheeses, dark chocolate or chocolate mousse.

Grapes: 40% Touriga Nacional, 30% Touriga Franca, 10% Tinta Roriz, 20% Old Vines

The grapes are harvested by hand in small containers and taken tot the lagares to be trodden by foot. Vinified traditionally in granite lagares,a wine with excellent extract is produced. Aged in old wooden vats unti lbottled in the second year after the harvest. It was bottled May 21, 2020, with 115 grams of residual sugar.

Alcoholcontent

20% vol

Store & Serve

Serve at cellar temperature at 12 - 15ºC.

when drinking before 2030 then a long decant is recommended and if possible, try it out during a 3 day window (if you can resist), watch it develop and the tannins getting softer. Prime time should be from 2040 onwards.