Quinta Do Portal is a family owned wine yard and maker, founded in the 1990s in Porto, Portugal. Tasted on 23-12-2020.

One of the two bottles opened was corked, tasted terrible. Into the sink it goes.

Taste notes 1 hour after decanting

Thin red color, but clear.

Very light aroma, dominated by the alcohol.

Hard tannins, alcohol, mild in the taste, but has a fresh fruit that wants forwards.

Intermediate rating 75 / 100

Taste notes 3½ hours after decanting

The color has attained a darker red color.

Aroma is still weak.

Taste has gotten softer, more soft like silk. The fruit is very straight forward and not complex.

Intermediate rating 79 / 100

Taste notes 8 hours after decanting

Even darker red in the color.

Deeper aroma which now has much more fruit to it.

The wine is finally open, shows some balance in the taste. Good fruits, but more to the red wine side, than aged and oaked.

Overall rating 88 / 100