Beautiful yellow with deep orange notes to the color. Medium sized head with fine foam on top.
Aroma comes off with a distinct wheat sensation and a bit of hops and sweet fruit. Could be stronger.
Low CO2, very sweet and fruited. A bit of hops, and overall balanced. Aftertaste has the ale darkness and a slight bitterness to it.
Overall rating 76 / 100
I received this beer as a birthday gift from my family, hence price for this glass bottled 500 ml beer at 5.9% is unknown.
Clear light brown in the color and with a great big head. Fine foam on top and staying on the beer.
Some sweetness to the aroma, but mostly dominated by hops. Clearly not a weissbier, but more witbier, especially with its added citrus and heath.
Good CO2 level, very dark and bitter in the taste. Not at all a wheated beer, more citrus and hops shines through. A thin darkness in the aftertaste.
A clear and dark wheat beer, with less sweetness. A lager with added spices, does not pass as a mainly wheat oriented beer in my book.
Overall rating 72 / 100
This weissbier came in a 500 ml can at 5.3% alcohol.
Yellow in the color and slightly hazy , nice head that disappears in a few moments.
Fresh aroma, with a hint of sweet fruits.
Good CO2 level, light and refreshing. Good balance between bitterness and sweetness. Not a powerful weissbier in the taste, but at least one in balance.
Overall rating 74 / 100
I bought this canned witbier at a local bar in Odense, Denmark, at the price of 9 Euro for a 440 ml can at 4.7% alcohol.
Thick flowing and orange in the color. Like orange juice. Nice white foam on top of the head.
Delicious fruited aroma with powerful hops mixed in. Citrus notes spices the scent.
Good CO2 level, delicious taste with a full bodied citrus experience. After taste does not disappoint, balances all the different components well.
Overall rating 83 / 100
I bought this beer from tap, at a local bar in Odense, Denmark. This 400 ml beer with a 5,2% alcohol content, was priced at 10 Euro, as part of a special brewer visit to the bar.
The focus on the tap takeover was beers from Northern Bayern, Germany.
Beautiful and cloudy orange color. Good foam and a nice head.
Hard on the hops and bitterness in the aroma.
Good CO2, on the low side. Full power on the hops and bitterness. Nothing sweet about this beer. No sweet notes. After taste finishes off with loads of bitterness.
Unexpected from the normally very sweet weissbier from the same region, that I love so very very much.
Overall rating 73 / 100
I bought this 750 ml glass bottle Vintage Port, at 20% alcohol, back in 2015. It was at the price of 44 Euro, from a Internet based Port specialized wine shop.
Taste notes right after opening and start of decantation:
Clear and dark red in the color.
Good aroma, fruited, but not powerful. Alcohol is low and not dominating.
Powerful tannin, very thick in the body, burns with a good fruit balance. Fruit notes and cask go well in play with each other.
Intermediate rating 89 / 100
Taste notes 4 hours after decanting:
The wine has gotten darker from the aeration.
Aroma seems unchanged.
Solid and full-bodied tasting experience. Cask notes, thick and delicious!
Overall rating 93 / 100
The name Quinta do Noval first appeared in land registers in the year 1715. António José da Silva, a Port shipper from Gaia, father-in-law of Luiz Valsconcelos Porto, acquired Quinta do Noval in 1894 after its devastation by phylloxera. He restored the property by replanting its vineyards.
A new bottling line and warehouse was completed in 1997 in Alijo, near to Pinhão. This project made Quinta do Noval the first of the traditional Port shippers to centralise all its activities in the Douro Valley rather than in Vila Nova de Gaia near Porto.
I bought this 750 ml glass bottle Vintage Port, at 20% alcohol, back in 2014. It was at the price of 29 Euro, from a Internet based Port specialized wine shop.
Taste notes after decanting
Thin bodied, fine red color with slightly brown notes.
Good fruited aroma with a dominating alcohol. With aeration, the alcohol takes a step back and let the fruit aroma evolve.
Dry and hard tannins, the taste comes off with a punch, but the fruit notes remains a bit thin. After taste sports a good dried fruits and raisins.
Overall rating 88 / 100
I bought this 750 ml glass bottle Vintage Port at a Danish Supermarket, in 2022. The price was around 33 Euro.
Burmester is owned by the Calem brand: https://www.disorder.dk/2013/11/26/visiting-calem-in-porto/
Decantation started at 1530 o’clock in the afternoon, preparing this really young vintage, to be enjoyed to red meat at dinner.
First taste notes are from 1600 o’clock, half an hour after opening:
Deep red with purple notes to the color. Thin curtains on the side of the glass.
Alcohol dominated aroma, lots of tannin and acid accompanying a red fresh fruit.
Very powerful in the taste. Very dry, but already in balance, goes into a nice aftertaste.
Intermidiate rating 84 / 100
Second taste notes are from 1715 o’clock, roughly 2 hours after opening:
Darkened in the color, more deep red.
Less alcohol in the aroma, more darkness to it.
Taste is even more in balance.
Intermediate rating 88 / 100
The last tasting notes are from 2215 o’clock, roughly 7 hours after opening:
Very dark by now.
Tannins are still very powerful.
Overall rating 89 / 100
Taste notes right after decanting
Clear wine with a brown color and red notes in the shine. Large and hanging curtains of alcohol on the side of the glass.
Powerful aroma of dark dried fruits, comes off as mature and complex. Alcohol is however dominating here in the start.
Low on tannins and acid. Powerful in the taste. Alcohol is warm, but not dominating, after taste ends out in pure liquid raisins. Seems over matured, as it is not well balanced in its taste.
Intermediate rating 85 / 100
Taste notes 4 hours after decanting
Slightly darker in the color, but still more brown than red.
Less alcohol dominating the aroma.
Taste and feeling on the palate remains the same. No change from the exposure to oxygen.
Overall rating 87 / 100
The cork got completely destroyed due to age and being soaked in wine.
Taste notes right after opening and decanting
Peach in the color with nice big curtains on the side of glass.
Hard hitting alcohol in the aroma, has a weak scent of fruit and cask.
High acid and hard alcohol at the start of the taste. Develops into a complex old smoked note. Dried fruits and especially raisin goes up in pace in the after taste. Ends as a complete raisin bomb.
Intermediate rating 88 / 100
Taste notes 4 hours after decanting
The color has turned slightly darker.
Much less alcohol in the aroma, fruit stands out better.
Same good taste, still a bit hard on the alcohol.
Overall rating 90 / 100