VINTAGE PORTS 

Port produced in some vintages only, from a 2 hectare lot within the Noval vineyards where ungrafted pre-phyloxera vines survive.

Critic tasting note: "(2011) Still very youthful colour, with a mineral edge to much deeper, darker, chocolaty tones. This seems dense and profound, with some nuttiness and a touch of liquorice, but a really deep-set fruitiness too. On the palate it is a sumptuous Port, with a great, thick, blanket of sweet fruit that wraps around the tongue but it has a wonderfully spicy and grippy structure too with the tannins plush and ripe, but sitting foursquarely as part of the mix, and a crisp, tangy bittersweet acidity too. A layered, complex and enveloping sort of Port, and fabulous." - 96/100, Tom Cannavan