NV Quinta do Mourao S. Leonardo Velhissimo +100 Years
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This special old Tawny Port from Quinta do Mourao is remarkable. A blend of wine from 1895 and 1927, there are just around 120 50cl bottles of this 100-year-old fortified wine. The nose combines notes of freshly roasted coffee beans, rich caramel and black liquorice, with leather, mahogany and dried fruit behind – raisins and prunes. It’s incredibly intense on the palate, but the very high acidity (one of Mourao’s trademarks) cuts through the weight of the fruit and 283g/l residual sugar, making the wine almost seem dry. There’s a furry phenolic grip, adding structure to the palate. The wine shifts almost endlessly, new aromas emerging with every sniff. Pure liquorice and rich cocoa lead on to more savoury, marmite-like notes and nutty richness.
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Roy Hersh, For the love of Port
Tim Jackson MW, jancisrobinson.com
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Deep brown with a narrow, olive rim – nothing 'tawny' about this at all. Polished mahogany and mushroom with a touch of black tea, and dark chocolate. For all its aromatic maturity and highly surprising colour, this has lots of vigour on the palate, with crisp acidity bringing exceptional balance and life. I was expecting something dried-out and old, but this is far, far from that. Fig, caramel, spice, dark chocolate, cooked citrus fruit (yes, fruit!) and polished-wood complexity. Utterly compelling and very, very long. Perfect? Very close to it.
Deep brown with a narrow, olive rim – nothing 'tawny' about this at all. Polished mahogany and mushroom with a touch of black tea, and dark chocolate. For all its aromatic maturity and highly surprising colour, this has lots of vigour on the palate, with crisp acidity bringing exceptional balance and life. I was expecting something dried-out and old, but this is far, far from that. Fig, caramel, spice, dark chocolate, cooked citrus fruit (yes, fruit!) and polished-wood complexity. Utterly compelling and very, very long. Perfect? Very close to it. (TJ)
The mother wine for this blend comes from 1895 and the average age is just over 100 years. It just keeps getting… “more.” Thicker, darker, more powerful. More intense. More crazy. The 100 almost looks like molasses in the glass, but it isn’t that thick. It is opaque, though. Opaque like a brand new just-bottled Vintage Port. The legs are crazy – the Port practically sheets off the glass rather than form legs, and the viscosity is so high that they take 10+ seconds to disappear. Legs are normally pretty clear and just show a reminder of the Port’s actual color, but these stain the glass a mahogany or burnt umber. The nose reveals aged and brewed molasses, buckwheat honey, supple very old leather, maybe some varnish, pipe tobacco, cigar box, steel cut oatmeal, and candied citrus. Much of that is echoed in the palate, which has the texture of heated honey… This isn’t something you drink, it’s something you sip in tiny little sips so that your brain can have any hope of keeping up processing the smells, flavors, and feelings. As it turns out, yes it is possible to have your mind blown twice in a row.
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Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca/Touriga Francesa, Tinta Barroca
Red
Sweet