Stefan Dolhain

9.3

2000 Colheita, bottled in 2013. From a single Quinta Vale d'Agodinho. Touriga Franca (35%), Tinta Roriz (20%), Touriga Nacional (15%), Tinta Barroca (10%),Tinta Caô (8%),other varieties (12%). Amazingly dark colour for a tawny, looks more like an 18 years old vintage port. Still a lot of fruit, intertwined with the intense flowery notes I associate with Touriga Franca and a rather understated nutiness. The mouth confirms the amazing fruit this wine still shows after 13 years of cask ageing and 5 years in bottle. Great balancing acidity and long nutty finish. Impressive indeed. Highly recommended. — 6 years ago

Alli Rosen

9.0

Needs to be chilled a bit, good flavor, blend of 20 grape varieties, smoky but still seems light — 7 years ago

Janos

9.0

Üdítő száraz — 7 years ago

Lawrence Bernstein

8.9

Young nice concentrated fruit. 89 — 7 years ago

Tom Kobylarz

10

Another rare Douro Beauty, this is harder to find than most cult wines and unicorns! Beautifully expressive of place, with more red fruits and a little more opulence than the Rio. An exceptional wine and on my list of must finds. — 8 years ago

Tom Kobylarz

9.4

Extremely rare, not sold in the USA but available at the Quinta to taste and take with you. 100% Touriga Nacional from both schist and granite, the combination of both soil types adds power, structure, freshness and complexity from the schist, while the granite rounds out the wine with more body, deeper fruit and plush tannins. Well structured and balanced, this is an elegant version of TN that will please traditional Douro wine consumers, as well as those that appreciate precision and elegance matched with power and grace. We were able to taste the 2014 individual parcels that allowed us to see the components that each soil type bring to the wine. This should go 95+ as it ages, it sure has the potential to do so.
Tasted at Quinta do Vale Meao 10/16/2015, tasted at opening and 1.5 hours later.
#meao #dourovalley — 9 years ago

Julieluvswine

8.9

2011: parfait with braised short rib. Ripe rich black fruits, enticing perfumed nose, developed tannin. — 9 years ago

Nick O'Neill

9.4

Great desert wine — 10 years ago

Daron Watson

9.5

the nose is bursting with green herbs, musky florals and tobacco ~ the fruit is super intense on the mid-palate surrounded by plush and dense tannins ~ youthfully on point with many years to go... — 6 years ago

Sean Grullon

9.2

What a value. Nose of leather and dark fruits with spice. Awesome density on the palate with a great fruity finish and an earthy attack. It’s a bit like a port that isn’t sweet. — 6 years ago

Jörgen Lindström Carlvik

Owner, Brix Wine Consultants

9.4

A cooler vintage in the Douro. And for the first time, stems were used during fermentation has created and strict and aromatic version combining rich red berries with spice with and crushed stone flavours. Still tight but showing great promise. 94 p. — 7 years ago

Bronx

9.1

#winesofportugal tasting — 8 years ago

Neil Joyce

9.0

Still young but décanted us full red fruit tannins still present Althoigh alcool at 14.5 ut doesn't pervade the Wine — 8 years ago

Patty Ledonne

9.1

Estate old vineyards over 40 varieties blended or mixed throughout the plots. Nice, soft some spice. Sold out of 2011 which was a great year. Look for this. — 9 years ago

Michael Hoffman

9.0

Delicious! — 9 years ago

Antonio Alberto Rodrigues

9.9

Branco com as castas Rabigato,Codega,Malvasia Fina e Arinto Excelente — 11 years ago

Janaina Curado

9.0

Custo beneficio excelente. Preço baixo e vinho saboroso. Vale quanto se paga. — 6 years ago

with Antonio

John Kanellopoulos

9.5

The Portuguese are teaching me at least that blending many vines with passion can produce exquisite experiences: refined, good body, smooth Ramon’s for a young wine, robust color l, varying aromas-really changing constantly!!! — 7 years ago

JKT

9.3

GL Portugal tasting 2/15/17. Nose with violets and savoriness that seemed to have opened up with time. At first more fruit driven. Palate that's really complex and yummy. More complex than'13 which suffered from a heat wave. 60% new oak and. Only 48 bottles left! — 7 years ago

John Koryouri

9.8

I think this wine is a hidden treasure. Shhh don't tell anyone — 8 years ago

Becky Hixen

9.2

Great price. Very bold. — 8 years ago

Tom Kobylarz

8.9

Meao Tawny NV (1999 stock)
From stocks that Francisco is experimenting with, these Tawny wines may or may not turn into a commercial bottling. From what I gather with discussing it with Luisa they are still tinkering with the blend and the style they want to represent as a Meao Tawny.
Caramel and roasted nuts jump from the glass and fan out over the thicker textured wine that adds oxidized notes of orange and ginger. If anything for me as good as this is it could use a little more freshness.
Tasted at Quinta do Vale Meao 10/16/2015.
#meao #topsecret #tawny — 9 years ago

Brad Donaldson

9.2

Great blend of Cabernet and Touriga Nacional. Such a luscious wine 👌 — 9 years ago

with Lewis

Louis Joachim

9.5

Great find in Portugal — 10 years ago

Tom Kobylarz

9.3

Dark ruby red core with red edges. Beautiful nose, medium to full bodied, elegant red fruits, cherry, sauve tannins, with good acidity, long and persistent vintage. Classy wine. — 11 years ago