Dows Quinta Do Bomfim Vintage Port Wine, 75 cl

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They will tend to mature a little earlier than the very rare declared years, but can be every bit as good as some other Vintage Ports.

Spice and pepper balance the black chocolate flavours and these are very evident in all the quinta’s ports. In the good years when Dow's does not declare a Vintage, the best Ports of Quinta do Bomfim are carefully selected and bottled as Dow's Quinta do Bomfim Vintage Port. Furthermore, emptying the traditional lagar takes a long time; in the meantime the fermentation process is accelerating away. The Dow’s blenders will select particular wines that are set aside and destined to become these great Old Tawny Ports.Dow's 20 Year Old Tawny Port was relaunched in 2019, after an absence from the market for a number of years. It is widely acknowledged amongst generations of Port producers that producing slightly drier Old Tawny Ports is far more difficult than producing sweet tawny Ports. Looking back through declared vintages, 2011 produced fabulous wines with freshness and a fruity style which will make them great drinking throughout their evolution.

The exceptionally aromatic nose has aromas of violets and jammy red fruits such as cherries and redcurrants. It gradually warms up, revealing marine notes, seaweed and oyster shells tincturing the black fruit.The property’s location offers the perfect balance between the harsh extremes of the eastern end of the valley and the overly rich soils and abundant rainfall of the lower Douro. In the good year’s when Dow’s does not ‘declare’ a Vintage, the best Ports of Quinta do Bomfim are carefully selected and bottled as Dow’s Quinta do Bomfim Vintage Port. When the Port’s are young, the aroma is of violets which matures into cinnamon and develop an elegance with maturity.

Vintage Ports are only made in years of exceptionally high quality harvests, which on average occur two or three times in a decade.

Idealtypischer Vintage mit zartherbem Biss, dunkler Schokolade, Cassis, Kirsche und Gewürzen, darunter schwarzem Pfeffer, dazu Zitruszesten. Has something of spices, from the relatively high proportion of Sousão, which are balanced by fresh acidity and minerality. Wine profile: When young, Bomfim wines are purple-black, austere, complex and intensely concentrated; they are characterised by very fine peppery tannins. Dow's Quinta do Bomfirm Vintage Port is a magnificent and complex fortified wine that has been produced exclusively from the finest grapes grown in the company's vineyard located in the heart of Portugal's Douro Valley. Dow's Vintage Ports are drawn from the companies' finest vineyards; Quinta do Bomfim and Quinta de Senhora da Ribeira.