2018 | Porto Ferreira | Vintage Port

Deep color, almost opaque, with intense and complex aromas with floral and balsamic notes, combined with resin, cedar, tobacco box, black fruits, spices, pepper, and a slightly stony touch. On the palate it has excellent body, very well integrated acidity, powerful tannins, and notes of spices with a long, lively finish of great harmony. Blend: 45% Touriga Franca, 40% Touriga Nacional, 10% Vinhas Velhas, 5% Sousão The structure of this extraordinary wine, rich and elegant, is a perfect match to dark chocolate, red and wild berries desserts and intense cheeses, such as a strong blue cheese.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: The 2018 Vintage Port is a roughly equal blend of Touriga Franca and Touriga Nacional with 10% a field blend from old vines and a smaller dollop of Sousáo, coming in with 103 grams of residual sugar. My favorite of the three Sogrape offerings just now—if the Sandeman comes into good balance a decade on, it might be the winner—this is an elegant Port with stunning fruit and excellent structure too. 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. It now has to prove it can evolve and age. It should.

• James Suckling: Polished and suave in feel, with a hint of dark tea curling up from the core of steeped plum, blackberry and black currant preserve flavors. Lots of juicy energy coiled up through the finish, where graphite and licorice-snap notes assert themselves. Touriga Nacional and Touriga Franca.

Producer Information

Porto Ferreira is a Port producer founded in 1751. It is billed as the only one of the great Port houses to have remained in Portuguese ownership throughout its history. The marque is now part of the giant Sogrape Vinhos company. Other Port labels under the same ownership are Offley and Sandeman. The portfolio begins with a Ruby, which unusually, is the only red Port. There are four white Ports; a Branco, a Branco Seco (dry white), a sweeter Lágrima and a Dona Antónia Reserva Branco. A quartet of Tawny Ports completes the current line up. The standard bottling is joined by three Dona Antónia wines, a Reserva, a 10 Year Old and a 20 Year Old. The Ferreira family have owned vines in what is now the Douro DOC since the mid 18th Century. The company grew considerably in the early 19th Century. Dona Antónia took over the business in 1844 as a 33-year old widow. She was well known throughout the region for her commercial sense, as well as her acts of social welfare, and earned the nickname Ferreirinha ("little Ferreira"). The emphasis on Tawny Port at Ferreira reflects her personal preference. Quinta do Porto is the oldest Ferreira property, near Pinhão. It was also the home of Dona Antónia. The 24 hectares (60 acres) of vineyards are used mainly for Tawnies. Quinta do Caêdo lies upstream from Pinhão. It has 24ha of vines planted on both sides of the tributary from which it takes its name. Around a third of the plots are of mixed varieties in the traditional manner. Quinta da Leda, in the east of the Douro region is the home of Casa Ferreirinha, the table wine operation associated with Ferreira. It boasts a gravity-fed winery built in 2001, and 76ha of vineyards.

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