Quinta do Vallado Colheita 1999 Tawny port
€ 56.30 / 500 ml
| Producer | Quinta do Vallado |
| Region | Douro |
| Grapes | Tinta Roriz, Tinta Amarela, Touriga Franca, Touriga Nacional |
| Ageing | 23 years in 600-litre oak casks |
| Alcohol | 19.5%vol | pH: 3.8 |
| Serving | 16°C |
Colheita 1999: candied orange peel and dried fruit, unctuous and fresh.
Tasting note
Rich, with fresh notes of candied orange peel and dried fruit. Very citrusy, complex and unctuous. Excellent volume and structure, with silky tannins and a fresh, very long finish.
The story
A colheita is a tawny from a single harvest. This 1999 aged for 23 years in 600-litre oak casks.
Made from old field-blend vines, with several varieties planted together.
Food pairing
Lovely as an aperitif, and delicious with chocolate, desserts, nuts and aged cheese, for example a mousse of 60% cocoa chocolate with candied orange.
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.
