2018 Vintage Port, Quinta da Pedra Alta Your Store

2018 Vintage Port, Quinta da Pedra Alta

Duoro, Portugal

This stylish and elegant vintage port embodies the style of Quinta da Pedra Alta.   Showing complex aromas of red, blue and black fruits, with chocolate, spice notes and lifted aromatics. This is a rich, restrained, elegant style of Vintage Port with a complex, seamless palate.

Drink now to accompany a mature Stilton, or cellar, as will gain further complexity over the next 20 years.

Whats in the bottle
Touriga Nacional (49%), Touriga Franca (27.5%), Tinta Roriz (13%), Sousão (9%), Tinta Barroca (1.5%)

Notable Awards
jancisrobinson.com – 17.5++ “Very dark with black core. Fragrant with damson and blueberry. Wonderfully pure fruit, even a touch of red fruit to lift the aroma, the tannins are dry but somehow rich in their texture. Although this is still so young and embryonic, it’s open and aromatic, with deliciously dry texture. I could almost drink this now but of course that would be infanticide. There’s a sweetness of fruit that balances so well with the dry Douro tannins. Long and feels fresh even with all the residual sugar (104 g/l) and concentration of a port.” Drink 2028 – 2040 (JH)

£49.75
Taxes included.

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Quinta da Pedra Alta is located in Soutelinho-Favaios near Alijó in the Cima Corgo sub-region of the Douro Valley above the Pinhão River. The property has a long history dating back to at least the late 18th century and contains 3 of the granite markers (Feitoria) that were put in place for the demarcation of the Port region (1758 to 1761).

Quinta da Pedra Alta is the only single Quinta with 3 Feitoria on their property, and the area has always produced grapes for high-quality ports.

Following a renovation project that took place in the mid-90s / early 2000s, they began to make DOC Douro table wines.

Pedra Alta was purchased just ahead of the 2018 harvest by the new owners, whose aim was to help winemaker, João Pires, realise the full potential of this amazing piece of land.

Pedra Alta’s 35 ha of vineyards sit between 230 and 550 metres above sea level and are planted on different faces of the hills. This combination of variation of altitude and exposure to the sun helps to give perfect balance and complexity to the wines.

The grapes are handpicked, hand sorted, destemmed, and fermented by wild yeasts at temperatures ranging from 20-25°C for 10 days on skins. Foot treading followed by gentle plunging is employed on both 1ton bin and granite lagar ferments. At the appropriate time, a clean spirit (to give the best fruit expression) and sulphur dioxide is added to stop the fermentation, after which the ferments are drained/pressed, and transferred to stainless steel tanks, where the wine matures for 20 months before being blended.


Producer
Quinta da Pedra Alta

Grape
Sousão, Tinta Barroca, Tinta Franca, Tinta Roriz, Touriga Nacional

Country
Portugal

Region
Duoro

Size
750ml

Types
Fortified, Port, Port & Dessert Wine

Vintage
2018

2018 Vintage Port, Quinta da Pedra Alta

£49.75

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