Portugal
2017 Rozes - Porto Vintage Port
The 2017 Vintage Port is a 40/35 blend of Touriga Franca and Touriga Nacional with 15% Sousão, plus miscellaneous others, unoaked and coming in with 103 grams of residual sugar. When seen before, this was very good but too tight. It is still too tight, bu...
2016 Rui Reguinga - Terrenus Tinto Clos dos Muros
The 2016 Tinto Terrenus Clos dos Muros is a field blend dominated by Grand Noir (50%) and Alicante Bouschet (20%), with 10% each of Trincadeira and Alfrocheiro, and others for the rest, all aged for 24 months in a new 1,000-liter foudre. It comes in at 14...
2018 Rui Reguinga - Tinto Intensus Reserva
Intensus Reserva is a red wine produced with red grapes from Aragonez, Trincadeira and Alicante Bouschet planted in the wine region of Alentejo. The fermentation process took place in stainless steel tanks, at controlled temperatures. After the fermentati...
NV Sandeman - Porto Tawny Port 40 Year Old (750ml)
The NV 40 Years Old Tawny Porto is a typical Douro blend bottled in August 2022 with a Vinolok stopper and 123 grams per liter of residual sugar. This is composed of juice ranging from 30 to 55 years in age to achieve an average age of 40 years. Comparing...
2022 Susana Esteban Foudre Alentejano (750ml)
We recently received a small allocation of the coveted "Foudre" bottling by esteemed Portuguese producer Susana Esteban. Up until today, the only white wine that Revista de Vinhos, Portugal's leading wine publication, had ever given a perfect score to was the 2018 vintage of Susana Esteban's Foudre, her remarkable old vine white field blend aged in a single Alsatian cask from 1961.
For the second time ever, Revista de Vinhos gave a white wine a perfect score, and again it was for Susana's Foudre, this time for the just released 2022 vintage. (Sadly, because she only has one foudre in which the wine ages for 18 months, she only makes the wine in even numbered years!).
The wine is sold out in Portugal.
Translated Excerpts from the review: "100 Points. A perfect white... It is textured, deep, vigorous, wide, long, racy... It's impressive how many layers this wine has and how many sensations it awakens. It's the Beatles, Tom Jobim, Cole Porter and Debussy. All at the same time..."
2023 Susana Esteban Procura Na Anfora Branco Alentejano (750ml)
2021 Susana Esteban Procura Branco Alentejano (750ml)
Produced with white grapes from the same old vineyard as the Procura Tinto, the Procura Branco is a wine they have produced since 2013. Susana Esteban wanted to produce a white that would age for a very long time in bottle and thought it could be done wit...