Wine Tasting Note: Croft Quinta da Roeda, 1987, Douro, Portugal.
Posted on December 22, 2005 by Andrew Barrow in Wine Notes
Croft Quinta Da Roeda 1987
Quinta da Roeda has the quaint tradition of planting a tree every year they produce a port from the vineyard. For 1987 a eucalyptus was selected; the leaves appear on the wines label abet faintly. This is a single vineyard wine (Quinta); not a full port vintage (which uses the very best grapes from across a range of properties) even though made from grapes from a single year. It will mature quicker than the top flight vintages. In my opinion they offer superb value for money.
Wine Tasting Note: Croft Quinta da Roeda, 1987, Douro, Portugal.
Available from Majestic £13.99 Cambridge Wine £18.99.
A mature nose, chocolately, coffee, medicinal hints. The palate is very appealing – a surge of delicious berry fruit, sweetness upfront, that dissipates into a quite mature mid-palate with hints of mint, chocolate and prunes. Big, full-bodied. But the richness quickly subsides into a dried, prune aftertaste. Croft themselves suggest that this specific vintage will be “perfection within ten to fifteen years” which means it’s about as good as it will ever be.
Scribblings Rating – 94/100
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Port-Blog says:
Post Author 25/12/2005 at 9:53 pmQuinta da Roeda (Croft) Vintage Port 1987 verkostet von Andrew Barrow
Bereits am 22.12. veröffentlichte Andrew Barrow in seinem Weinblog ‘spittoon’ seine Verkostungsnotizen vom Quinta da Roeda Vintage Port 1987.
spittoon says:
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