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  • Country ranking ?

    93
  • Producer ranking ?

    28
  • Decanting time

    2h
  • When to drink

    Now

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The Story

QUINTA DO NOVAL NACIONAL

No other vintage port attracts more attention than Quinta do Noval’s Nacional and its collectability can be partly attributed to its tiny production. Only 200 - 300 cases are produced in a declared year. This represents a tiny percentage of Quinta do Noval’s production of vintage port (between 1,200 and 5,000 cases in each declared year). Nacional’s two and a half hectares of ungrafted vines are almost indistinguish...

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Wine Information

The name of Quinta do Noval first appeared in land registries in 1715. The property was owned for more than a century by the Rebello Valente family, who were given it by the Marquês do Pombal, Portugal’s all-powerful prime minister. In the early 19th Century,the
estate passed by marriage to the Viscount Vilar D’Allen, who was renowned for hosting wild parties at Noval, transporting dancing girls from the Folies Bergères.

By the 1880s the D...

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Tasting note

color

Deep and Brick red

ending

Long and Smooth

flavors

Cherry, Smoky and Cedar

nose

Intense and Seductive

recommend

Yes

taste

Full-bodied

Written Notes

Bought directly from Noval’s shop in Oporto. Decanted three hours. Bright red, deep ruby-garnet colour with orange reflections. This still young-looking, full-bodied and intense wine shows that extraordinary and very seductive combination of being simultaneously muscular and feminine. Very smooth andsilky on the palate. The dominating flavour here is black cherries, but over that you will find graceful layers of chocolate, cedar wood, smoke,and sweetness. Long, warm and refined aftertaste. Ready now, but no rush.

  • 96p

VINTAGE PORT NACIONAL 1964 – From an off-year with very little declaration of other producers: Fully transparent, red colour. Malt, honey, menthol, black tea and chocolate. Soft and somewhat creamy on the palate, minty notes, milk chocolate and toffee. Long and structured on the aftertaste. 18 Now - 2030

  • 93p
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Origin

Porto, Douro
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