Name: Quinta do Vallado 20 Year Old Tawny
Brand: 3210
SKU: QVTP206
Price: 79.99 USD
Availability: InStock

Quinta Do Vallado

95|WRO, 93|WA, 93|WS

The Quinta Do Vallado 20 year-old Tawny is rich and nutty with aromas of dried fruit and cigar. The palate is voluptuous and round, ending with a satin finish.

A terrific after-dinner drink, this Port is the perfect accompaniment to dried fruits, nuts and cheese.

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Winereviewonline.com (95 Points):
“Just in time for Christmas, a monumental 20-year-old tawny Port from Quinta do Vallado. This spicy tawny is long and rich on the palate, shows hints of dried fruits and nuts and baking spice, with exceptional length and a finish that keeps on giving. All that's missing is the roaring fire and Cuban cigar.”

Wine Advocate (93 Points):
“The 20 Year Old Tawny, bottled in 2013, was aged in very old oak casks and vats. It is an old-vines field blend with residual sugar of 119 grams per liter. Opening with a big, big rush of sugar, this shows more focus and far more complexity than I sensed on the first whiff. The finish is crisp and laced with a bit of brandy. This isn't big and thick, but it seems far richer than it is given the finish and the aromatics. The aromatics are very powerful for a 20. The remarkably concentrated flavors on the finish also seem often to exceed what many 20s deliver. This is quite an exceptional 20 Year from many perspectives, but that finish is particularly exceptional. There were a mere 1,000 bottles of 500ml produced.”

Wine Spectator (93 Points):
“Suave and silky-tasting, delivering complex, refined flavors of buttercream, toffee, dried apricot and pear. Light and airy on the finish, with a cleansing minerality and hints of sea salt.”

Wine Enthusiast (90 Points):
“This has just the right balance between the fresh fruit of younger Ports and the wood and dried fruit of aged tawnies. It’s a dry style of Port, with a lift of acidity. It’s delicious and, like all aged tawnies, ready to drink now.”

Over the course of 300+ years, since 1716, Quinta do Vallado has been producing excellent wines in Portugal’s Douro Valley. It is one of the oldest and most famous wineries in all the Douro, started by the legendary Doña Antónia Adelaide Ferreira, and still belongs to the same family today. It is a sixth-generation winery, currently owned by João Ferreira Alvares Ribeiro and Francisco Ferreira. The estate produced Port wines exclusively, until the 1990’s when it expanded production into dry wines.

Vallado has 250 acres of its own vineyards in two sub-regions of the Douro. They are comprised 100-year-old field blend vines, single variety plots and certified organic vineyards. The terraced vineyards are hand-harvested with one row of vines trained to a double cordon trellising system, allowing for good drainage, air flow and erosion control.

Quinta do Vallado built a state-of-the-art winery in 2009, along with an ultra-modern hotel, which was completed in 2015. These upgrades solidified the Douro Valley as a world-class tourism destination. The winery was recently named as one of the top 100 vineyards in the world and one of Wine & Spirits Top 100 producers of 2021. And in 2020, Decanter magazine bestowed the honor of one of the wines of the year to the 2019 Vallado Prima.

Acidity: 4.8
Sugar: 119 g/l
PH: 3.55
Alcohol content: 20

Vintage: Non-vintage

Style: Sweet Wine

Varietal: Port

Appellation: Douro

Winemaker: Quinta Do Vallado