Quinta do Vale Meão
Quinta do Vale Meão Vintage Port
Porto, Douro, Portugal
A deep red and purple colored core, with a vibrant cherry red on the edges. The nose is intense, but more expressive like a wine showing the red and black fruits, with more elegant and tertiary character of spices like star anise, lavender, and other wild flowers. The length is superb, with a similar persistence to the Meao table red in that it shows strength without trying hard.
This further convinces me of the ability of the Quinta single vineyard Ports to excel above all of the regular big house Port wines. I consider these to be more wine like in their character, being less intensely fiery from the spirit when young and allowing for more compelxity and approchability earlier in life, but with the ability to still age very well and in excellent vintages much longer. Will a VP from a big house age longer, probably but it has less of the wine like character and the world can use more variation in great Port for sure.
Tasted at Quinta do Vale Meao 10/16/2015.
#meao #dourovalley #port
A deep red and purple colored core, with a vibrant cherry red on the edges. The nose is intense, but more expressive like a wine showing the red and black fruits, with more elegant and tertiary character of spices like star anise, lavender, and other wild flowers. The length is superb, with a similar persistence to the Meao table red in that it shows strength without trying hard.
This further convinces me of the ability of the Quinta single vineyard Ports to excel above all of the regular big house Port wines. I consider these to be more wine like in their character, being less intensely fiery from the spirit when young and allowing for more compelxity and approchability earlier in life, but with the ability to still age very well and in excellent vintages much longer. Will a VP from a big house age longer, probably but it has less of the wine like character and the world can use more variation in great Port for sure.
Tasted at Quinta do Vale Meao 10/16/2015.
#meao #dourovalley #port