Noval Vintage Port Quinta do Noval 2019

Vinification: Grapes are trodden by foot to obtain the must, then during fermentation macerated to obtain the best possible extraction in the lagares, the traditional stone vats from the Quinta.

Maturing: It is matured for 18 months in wooden casks in the airconditioned cellars of the Quinta, at the demarcated region of the Douro Valley before bottling.

Quinta do Noval Vintage Port is characterised by its purity of fruit and a fine, delicate quality that is typical of the wines of the property in general, but which finds its most remarkable and enduring expression in the Vintage Ports.

Equilibrium, harmony, finesse and elegance characterise Noval's great Vintage Ports, which are declared only when they are certain that the year has produced a blend, however small, that is worthy of bearing the name of Quinta do Noval Vintage Port. Noval follows its own path in its approach to Vintage Port. If they believe that they have wines of the quality and personality to join the ranks of the Quinta do Noval Vintage Ports of previous years, they will bottle it and declare it, even if this means declaring several years in a row, and even if it means, as is often the case, bottling only a few hundred cases of Quinta do Noval Vintage Port, representing a tiny percentage of the total production of the Quinta.

Estate: Quinta do Noval lies in the Douro valley in Northern Portugal where great Port has been produced since 1715. Noval is unique among the great traditional Port houses in its emphasis on the importance of the vineyard. It is significant that the company is named after its vineyard, that it is entirely based in the Douro valley, that its principal Vintage Ports, Quinta do Noval Nacional and Quinta do Noval are both single vineyard wines. The target is to produce great classic Vintage Ports which are harmonious and elegant expressions of the terroir of Quinta do Noval. At Noval the vineyard is at the heart of everything they do.