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Quinta Do Portal Vintage Port 1999 (Tasted 2020)

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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

Noval Silval Vintage Port 1999 (Tasted 2024)

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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.

Decating started at 1530 in the afternoon.

The wine already seemed ready for a serious tryout at 1600 o’clock.

It is a clear wine, red in the color with brown notes.

Good aroma, only some alcohol, but more fruit and maturity in the notes.

Warmth in the taste, alcohol and tannins in play. Maturity and cask, goes in play with the dried fruit notes. Great big raisin in the aftertaste.

Drink now.

Overall rating 90 / 100

Sandeman Vau Vintage Port 1999

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Estimated cost of this Sandeman Vau Vintage Port 1999 bottle of 750 ml is 35 Euro.

Taste notes right after decanting

Light in the colour, but still resembling blood red. Thin curtains in the glass.

Weak fruit in the aroma, dominated by the alcohol.

Thin fruit taste with a light and acidity feeling in the mouth.

Intermediate rating 81 / 100

Taste notes after 4 hours

Gained some weight and a darker colour.

Intermediate rating 83 / 100

Taste notes after 9 hours

Dark red with a more brown tone to it.

More matured and in balance in the aroma, less alcohol.

Sweet fruits and tannin in a great play. Still a very dry wine with a specific figs and raisins in the after taste.

Intermediate rating 86 / 100

Taste notes after 12 hours

Much more balance in the taste, a bigger joy on the palate.

Overall rating 88 / 100

Offley Boa Vista Vintage Port 1999

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Read all about Offley at: Visiting Offley in Porto

I bought this vintage port in a local supermarket in Odense, Denmark, it was on offer at 30 Euro. 750ml bottle at 20,5%.

It is only 13 – 14 years old and is properly still too young.

The colour is dark red almost bordeaux.

Taste notes 1 hour after decanting.

Weak fruit to the aroma that is dominated by the alcohol.

Tasting is dry, warm, tannin and some unbalanced notes that almost made me think it was a little corked.

Taste notes 24 hours after decanting.

The dried fruit shines more through in the aroma and alcohol is less dominant.

The taste still have a dry heavy start from the tannin and a great warmth. The unbalanced mentioned earlier is gone and a good after taste finishes it.

 

It should properly get some more years in the cellar, it lacks the complexity in the taste and a balance in aroma and taste.

Overall rating 87 / 100