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Quinta de la Rosa Vintage 2016

Quinta de la Rosa Vintage 2016

DO Douro, 375 ml

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Grape variety: Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Souzão
Producer: Quinta de la Rosa
Origin: Portugal / Porto
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Grape variety: Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Souzão
Producer: Quinta de la Rosa
Origin: Portugal / Porto
Other bottle sizes:
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Description

What do you enjoy with dessert, at the end of the evening or as a "slumber drink" in front of the fireplace? We recommend a Vintage Port for these moments! With great length, its lavish and complex taste lasts. Juicy, full-bodied, with ultra-fine tannins, it reveals an incredible harmony and elegance. Vintage Ports are suitable for decades of ageing. So start thinking today about round birthdays, anniversaries, the children or nephews and of course put a few bottles aside for yourself.

Attributes

Origin: Portugal / Porto
Grape variety: Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Souzão
Label: Vegan, Certified integrated production
Ripening potential: 4 to 15 years after harvest
Drinking temperature: 16 to 18 °C
Food Pairing: Cakes, biscuits, pastries, Chocolate and chocolate dessert, Blue cheese
Vinification: with stalks attenuated, fermentation with grapes' own yeast, stamped by foot
Harvest: hand-picking, strict selection, in small boxes
Maturation: in large wooden barrel/foudre
Bottling: no filtration
Maturation duration: 18 months
Volume: 20.0 %
Residual sugar: 100 g
Note: Contains sulphites
Producer

Quinta de la Rosa

Portugal and England have engaged in wine trading since the 14th century. Over the course of time, the British also settled in Portugal, establishing agricultural estates (quintas) to grow wine, and founding large trading companies in Porto. The Bergqvist family are descendants of these settlers, still involved in production and trade on the strength of innovative ideas and great commitment.

Quinta de la Rosa is headed by Sophia Bergqvist. She is the granddaughter of Claire Feuerheerd, who received Quinta de la Rosa as a christening gift from her English grandmother. Sophia's father, Tim Bergqvist, took over the management in 1972, after Claire Feuerheerd’s death. The quinta experienced some turbulent times – the depression in the 1930s, the Second World War and difficult times in the 1960s. When the Portuguese revolution broke out, the temptation to sell was great. But Sophia's mother, Patricia, spoke out strongly against this move.

With Portugal’s entry into the European Community in 1986, both father and daughter decided to join forces to make Quinta de la Rosa one of the leading independent producers of quality port wine. Very soon afterwards, Quinta de la Rosa became one of the first to also bottle dry Douro wine. Today, not only can you find their excellent port wines in the best wine shops, hotels and restaurants all over the world, but also their extraordinary dry white and red wines. The La Rosa White Wine Reserva, for example, surprises with its mineral freshness, complexity and length, standing toe to toe with top Burgundy wine.

The Douro Valley is also a fantastic travel destination. Quinta de la Rosa offers visitors charming rooms, equipped with all the modern comforts. In summer 2017, they opened the Cozinha da Clara restaurant, which serves Portuguese dishes and recipes handed down from grandmother Claire. www.quintadelarosa.com

 

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Grape variety

Touriga Nacional

National emblem

The Touriga Nacional originally comes from the Dão, in the heart of Portugal. There is a village there named Tourigo. But it became famous in the Douro Valley, where port wine is produced. When the five best varieties were selected from the motley assortment of grapes growing in the vine terraces in the 1980s, the Touriga Nacional was the first choice. It smells of cassis, raspberry, plum, violet and liquorice, and is concentrated on the palate with supple tannins. It does well not only in port wine, but also in dry reds. Solo, the Touriga Nacional tastes almost too intense; therefore, it is usually blended with other varieties such as Touriga Franca and Tinta Barroca. Developed in barriques, the wines show their full potential. In the past ten years, the cultivation area of this grape has more than doubled, and spread to the whole of Portugal.

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Souzão

Already bewitches the eye

This ancient autochthonous red wine comes from northern Portugal. It was long assumed that Souza was an independent vine variety; genetic study, however, has shown that the Souzão and Vinhao varieties are identical.

The berries were valued as early as 1790 in Duro for their intense color, and they were particularly used to provide a dark color to port wine. They are seldom developed as varietal wines.

As time passed, Souzão found its way overseas as well: it is particularly appreciated in South Africa, but it also now calls California and Australia home.

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Touriga Franca

Ingredient for red wine and port.

The Touriga Franca is at home in the rugged beauty of the Portuguese Douro Valley. On the slate terraces over the river, the grapes were traditionally grown in mixed settings. Up to 80 different vine varieties shared a single parcel. Not even the vintners knew which variety they were dealing with. In the 1980s, Ramos Pinto undertook to identify the five best grape varieties for port wine production. One member of this selection was Touriga Franca. It shines with its deep red colour, intense aromas of blackberry, rose and wildflowers, its full-bodied structure and velvety tannins. Port wine was once dominant on the Douro. But for 15 years the dry red wines here have experienced an unprecedented boom. The Touriga Franca almost always plays a part. It is mostly blended with Touriga Nacional and Tinta Roriz.

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Country

Portugal

Portugal – Much more than port

Situated on the southwestern tip of Europe, this country is, despite its small size, blessed with a multitude of landscapes. Austere mountains alternate with green valleys and golden beaches. Vines have thrived against this backdrop for over 4,000 years, brought to the peninsula by Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans.

Portugal has over 500 autochthonous varieties. The term derives from ancient Greek, and means roughly “of the land itself.”

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Rating
Parker 93 Points
Wine Spectator 92 Points

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