2017 | Ferreira | Vintage Port

Deep, dark, opaque in colour, restrained, tight-knit with underlying brooding tannins and ripe cherry fruit, broad, ripe morello cherry fruit on the palate backed by ripe, expressive fine-grained tannins leading to a firm, tight-knit finish. In the mouth it has an excellent presence of firm but silky tannin’s. The acidity is well integrated with notes of black fruits and a long finish, of great elegance.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: Perfectly put together and seeming drier than its statistics would suggest, this is a potential beauty. It is more expressive than its siblings (including the Offley and Sandeman). If it is not as rich as the Sandeman, it is fresher, more precise and more lifted. It should hold well. When tasted the next day, it tightened up with additional aeration, but it was still approachable. I loved its purity, in particular, at that point.

• Wine Enthusiast: This impressively structured wine shows a perfect balance between its powerful, spicy fruits and firm tannins. Dense tones of dark berries and smoke are rich and flavorful, bringing the wine to a perfect conclusion.

Producer Information

Since 1751, the Ferreira name has been synonymous with high-quality Portuguese wines. The first Portuguese owned Port house, its history is intertwined with the the evolution of the Douro Region and its wines. The story of Ferreira is inextricably associated with one extraordinary woman. Daughter of one of the company’s founders, Dona Antónia Adelaide Ferreira was born in the country town of Régua, gateway to the wines of the Douro Valley, in 1811. Though small in stature and reserved by nature, Dona Antónia was charismatic, visionary and entrepreneurial. She created new expanses of terraced vineyards and improved the hard lives of local farming families. The local people’s affectionatley called her ‘A Ferreirinha’ – ‘the little Ferreira’. When ‘The Ferreirinha’ died in 1896, she left behind a portfolio of great Douro estates and an immensely successful business. Today, more than 250 years after its foundation, Ferreira is the only great Porto Wine house to have always remained in Portuguese family hands. Ferreira is quintenssentially Portuguese and a benchmark in excellent, quality Ports. It is a symbol of the country and culture it proudly honors.

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