Quinta do Vallado Tinta Roriz 2017
€ 34.50
| Producer | Quinta do Vallado |
| Region | Douro |
| Grapes | Tinta Roriz |
| Ageing | 16 months in used oak barrels |
| Alcohol | 14.5%vol |
| Serving | 17°C |
| Drinking window | Up to 14 years after the harvest |
| Scores | 93/100 Wine Enthusiast |
Tinta Roriz 2017: powerful and juicy, with ripe red fruit and an exotic finish.
Tasting note
Very concentrated, with balsamic notes and aromas of ripe red fruit and curry. Big, powerful and juicy, with red fruit flavours. Round, ripe tannins and a powerful, exotic finish.
The story
The grapes fermented in temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks with regular pumping over. After malolactic fermentation in stainless steel, the wine aged for 16 months in used barrels (second use), 10% American and the rest French oak.
Today Quinta do Vallado has about 10 hectares of old vines planted between the 1920s and 1950s, including Vinha da Granja (1929) and Vinha da Coroa (1958). The younger vineyards were planted in the 1990s with a single variety per plot, breaking with the old tradition of planting varieties together.
Food pairing
A delicious wine with all kinds of meat, especially grilled.
The producer
Built in 1716, Quinta do Vallado is one of the oldest and best-known quintas in the Douro. It lies near Peso da Régua, on the banks of the Corgo, close to where it meets the Douro. In 1818 António Bernardo Ferreira bought the estate, which later belonged to the legendary Dona Antónia Adelaide Ferreira (1811-1896), the ‘Ferreirinha’. Her descendants still own it today.
For almost 200 years Vallado mainly made Port, sold by the family’s Ferreira house until that was sold in 1987. Since the early 1990s the quinta has released wine and Port under its own name. Today the cousins Francisco Ferreira and João Ferreira Álvares Ribeiro run the estate, with winemaker Francisco Olazabal. In Vila Nova de Foz Côa, in the Douro Superior, Vallado also bought Quinta do Orgal, where organic vineyards have been planted since 2009.
Critics & Awards
93/100 Wine Enthusiast | Tasted: Jan 2018
