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A great Malvedos with typical minty aomas and undertones of cacao and berry fruits. The mouth has a firm tannic structure and succulent blackberry flavours. A bold, powerful wine promising many years in bottle. A true Malvedos thoroughbred.
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The Story
The extraordinary quality of the wines from the Malvedos vineyard is such that in Vintage declarations these wines provide the main structure of Graham’s classic Vintage Ports. In most interim years, the wines from Malvedos merit bottling as a Single Quinta Vintage Port: Graham’s Quinta dos Malvedos Vintage Port.
Graham’s Malvedos Vintage Ports have won an astonishing collection of awards at the world’s major international wine competitions...
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Although Touriga Nacional took centre stage in much of the Douro Valley in 2019, at Malvedos it played second fiddle
to Touriga Franca, a variety that almost invariably performs extremely well at Quinta dos Malvedos (it was also the main component in the 2018 Malvedos Vintage Port and in the back-to- back classic Vintage declarations of 2016 and 2017. This Touriga Franca was drawn mainly from the mature Valdossa vineyards,planted in the mid-1...
Vintage 2019
We had a very dry and mild winter and spring, and by late summer the vines were in need of water to keep maturations on track. Fortunately, the virtual absence of rain from May to late August was counterbalanced by cooler summer conditions, and we also benefited at Malvedos from exceptionally well-timed rain at the end of August (22mm), which made a real difference, two weeks before the vintage was due to start. Then, halfway through the harve...
