Portugal
NV Sandeman - Porto Tawny Port 40 Year Old (750ml)
The NV 40 Years Old Tawny Porto is a typical Douro blend bottled in August 2022 with a Vinolok stopper and 123 grams per liter of residual sugar. This is composed of juice ranging from 30 to 55 years in age to achieve an average age of 40 years. Comparing...
2023 Susana Esteban Procura Na Anfora Branco Alentejano (750ml)
2021 Susana Esteban Procura Branco Alentejano (750ml)
Produced with white grapes from the same old vineyard as the Procura Tinto, the Procura Branco is a wine they have produced since 2013. Susana Esteban wanted to produce a white that would age for a very long time in bottle and thought it could be done wit...
2022 Susana Esteban Aventura Tinto Alentejano (750ml)
The 2022 Aventura Tinto was produced with 40% Aragones (Tempranillo), 40% Touriga Nacional and 20% of an old vine field blend, all from granite soils. The wine is in a fresh style, without oak, perfumed with a floral note (violets from the Touriga?). It's...
2022 Susana Esteban A Centenaria Tinto Alentejano (750ml)
A Centenária was first produced in 2021 with grapes from a centenary vineyard with a field blend from the São Mamede mountains. The 2022 A Centenária fermented in open-top stainless steel lagar and matured in old barrels for eight months. Susana wanted to...
2022 Susana Esteban Foudre Alentejano (750ml)
We recently received a small allocation of the coveted "Foudre" bottling by esteemed Portuguese producer Susana Esteban. Up until today, the only white wine that Revista de Vinhos, Portugal's leading wine publication, had ever given a perfect score to was the 2018 vintage of Susana Esteban's Foudre, her remarkable old vine white field blend aged in a single Alsatian cask from 1961.
For the second time ever, Revista de Vinhos gave a white wine a perfect score, and again it was for Susana's Foudre, this time for the just released 2022 vintage. (Sadly, because she only has one foudre in which the wine ages for 18 months, she only makes the wine in even numbered years!).
The wine is sold out in Portugal.
Translated Excerpts from the review: "100 Points. A perfect white... It is textured, deep, vigorous, wide, long, racy... It's impressive how many layers this wine has and how many sensations it awakens. It's the Beatles, Tom Jobim, Cole Porter and Debussy. All at the same time..."
1977 Taylor Fladgate Porto Vintage Port
This house must certainly be the Latour of Portugal. Their ports are remarkably backward yet still impressive when young. Of all the vintage ports, those of Taylor need the longest time to mature and even when fully mature seem to have an inner strength a...
2018 Taylor Fladgate - Vintage Port HALF BOTTLE (375ml)
The 2018 Vintage Port is a field blend aged for approximately 18 months in very old and large wooden vats. It comes in with 100 grams of residual sugar. This is the third straight declaration (2016, 2017 and this 2018) of a classic Vintage Port for Taylor...
2018 Taylor Fladgate - Vintage Port
The 2018 Vintage Port is a field blend aged for approximately 18 months in very old and large wooden vats. It comes in with 100 grams of residual sugar. This is the third straight declaration (2016, 2017 and this 2018) of a classic Vintage Port for Taylor...
NV Taylor Fladgate - Porto Tawny Port 10 Year Old
Taylor Fladgate - Porto Tawny Port 10 Year Old NV 750ml
