Vintage Port 2009

Try if you like Port

blackberries | raspberries | chocolate

Sale price£57.99

Drew's Tasting Note

An expressive nose of blackberries, blackcurrants, plum, and raspberries with notes of sweet spices and a hint of chocolate. Rich, elegant and fresh. Full-bodied, complex and beautifully balanced with a long and layered finish. Perfectly drinkable now, but will age gracefully.

Producer: Quinta de la Rosa | Vintage: 2009 | From: Douro, Portugal | Alcohol: 20.0 | Size: 75cl | Style: sweet red, fortified, vegan | Grape: Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Sousão

2009 vintage, 18+/20 points, Richard Hemming MW, JancisRobinson.com, July 2013

The Winery

Quinta de la Rosa is a small family estate in the heart of the Douro Valley, owned by Sophia Bergqvist, the only British woman managing a Port house. The estate has been in the family since 1906, when La Rosa was gifted to Sophia's grandmother as a christening present. The label was relaunched by Sophia and her father, Tim, in 1988. One of a handful of Douro estates where the vineyards run from the river's edge to the top of the mountain (climbing 450 metres through 11 different microclimates), Quinta de la Rosa produces small quantities of Port and table wine entirely on the estate, from vineyard to bottle.