Very concentrated aroma, with intense black fruit aromas, hints of tobacco, balsamic and prunes. Great structure, elegant texture with pleasant acidity, minerality, round and soft tannins. followed by a long lingering and complex finish.
 
Bottled in honor of Dona Antónia Adelaide Ferreira, this is a unique wine, made from a vineyard in Rio Torto mostly planted in the 1940s, traditionally planted as a field blend of more than 30 grape varieties. A very rare wine, only bottled in exceptional years, and in very small quantities (approximately 4000 bottles).
 
Food pairing

Very concentrated aroma, with intense black fruit aromas, hints of tobacco, balsamic and prunes. Great structure, elegant texture with pleasant acidity, minerality, round and soft tannins. followed by a long lingering and complex finish.

 

Bottled in honor of Dona Antónia Adelaide Ferreira, this is a unique wine, made from a vineyard in Rio Torto mostly planted in the 1940s, traditionally planted as a field blend of more than 30 grape varieties. A very rare wine, only bottled in exceptional years, and in very small quantities (approximately 4000 bottles).

 

Food pairing

A delicious wine ideal with red (grilled) meat dishes

  

Grapes: Touriga Franca, Touriga Nacional, Tinta Amarela, Tinta Roriz, Sousão & Old Vines 

The grapes come from a parcel of very old vineyards (some more than one hundred years old) where a blend of more than 30 different indigenous grape varieties are planted. The soil is predominantly schist (black slate). These vines, planted in a density of 7,000 vines per hectare, yield on average 400g per plant, equivalent to 2,8 tons per hectare. This puts these vines amongst the lowest yielding per hectare in the world. 

 

The grapes, after a careful manual selection on the sorting belt, were de-stemmed and fermented in stainless steel tanks (holding up to 3.000 kilos of grapes each) at a controlled temperature of 24ºC with mechanical remontage for 9 days. The wines from the old vineyards were then stored  in stainless steel tanks for the duration of the malolactic fermentation and were afterwards racked to 225 litres new French Allier Oak barriques for 20 months 

     

Alcoholcontent

14,5 %vol

 

Store & Serve

Serve at 17-18 °C. Can be drunk up to 12 years after harvest

Critics & Awards

4,6/5 - Vivino (176 ratings)

17,5/20 - Grandes Escolhas Tasted: Mar 2018

97/100 - Falstaff Tasted: Aug 2022

  

Tags: Quinta do Vallado - Douro