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Wine Description
The Story
Redoma is like the Douro, with character and strong personality: a wine with great structure, fine tannins and huge persistence. Redoma is produced from several vineyards located in Cima Corgo Region. These are over 60 year old vineyards mainly north facing where we can find a typical field blend of Touriga Franca, Touriga Nacional, Tinta Roriz, Tinta Amarela and Tinto Cão. At Niepoort we feel Redoma is the perfect Douro ambassador.
Wine Information
2011 was characterised by a very early flowering and the whole of the growing cycle was brought forward, with the harvest beginning much sooner than usual. However, the vines planted at higher altitudes were slower to mature and the wines eventually provided moderate degrees of alcohol and good levels of tartaric acid and malic acid. The grapes for Redoma Red 2011 are from old vines near Quinta de Nápoles. After a careful selection on entering...
Vintage 2011
2011 Vintage Port Declaration: All of the major port houses have now declared the 2011 vintage as being of exceptional quality. For many shippers this is the first declaration since 2007. The avalanche of declarations started with Sogrape, owners of Sandeman and Ferriera. This has been followed by Symington, the company that owns Dows, Graham Warre and Cockburn and Taylor Fladgate owners of the Fonseca and Taylors brands
