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  • Country ranking ?

    100
  • Producer ranking ?

    30
  • Decanting time

    3h
  • When to drink

    now to 2040
  • Food Pairing

    stilton or Gorgonzola

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97 pts Jamie Goode - Deep coloured and concentrated, this has an amazingly vivid, plummy, spicy nose. There are some dark, earthy, savoury notes, as well as firm tannins and amazing intensity. Quite savoury with lovely structure. Just brilliant.

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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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VINTAGE PORT NACIONAL 1996 – Tasted at the “Portwine Day”(10 September) in Porto. Dense and deep dark red colour. Balanced in the bouquet with underlying complexity, red-berry fruit. The palate is as well in the “sleeping phase” right now. White pepper, cassis, cherry and blackberry, spicy in the back. Long aftertaste. 18 2030 - 2060

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Porto, Douro
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