Quinta Do Noval 2008

QUINTA DO NOVAL

The wonderful 2008 Vintage Port and 2004 Late Bottled Vintage from this legendary Estate. Highly limited.

“Quinta do Noval was one of the few great Port houses to declare a vintage in 2008. In total contrast with the personality of the 2007 vintage, the 2008 is a classic, Noval Vintage endowed with the great depth, finesse and elegance that are the constant characteristics of the estate’s finest wines.” Roy Hersh, For the love of Port, Dec 2010.

From Below: “At its best, Vintage Port may well be the greatest wine of them all. Fashion and personal taste aside, no other wine can match a great VP for complexity, depth and longevity.”

Below we offer four special wines from one the greatest Port estates. Quinta do Noval’s vineyards, perched high above the Douro Valley, produce some of the finest Ports in the world. It is, of course, here that the most revered Vintage Port of all is produced; Quinta do Noval Nacional. Like Nacional, the Quinta do Noval Vintage Port (VP) and the LBV 2004 we offer below, are the product of the same, single vineyard (“Quinta” can only be used on a Vintage Port produced from a single estate). The only differences in the fruit for the VP, Nacional VP and LBV is that Nacional, when released, comes solely from a parcel of gnarled, ungrafted vines (which resist phylloxera for reasons that remain unknown), while Quinta do Noval VP and LBV derive from the other, grafted vines of the Estate. Having said this, in years where no Nacional is released, the wine from the ungrafted vines can find its way in to both the VP and the LBV. These three Vintage Ports are made exactly the same way; trodden by foot in traditional granite Lagares and vinified, blended and matured on the Quinta do Noval property itself. Of course the LBV receives a longer maturation, as is made clear below.

In fact nearly all of the wines of Noval derive exclusively from the same single Estate.... learn more