The port Quinta do Noval, vintage 2015 from the winery Quinta do Noval has been rated in 2022 by Anne Krebiehl with 96 Falstaff points. It is a wine made from the region Vila Nova de Gaia in Portugal.
The ruby colour is deep but not quite opaque. An exquisite fragrance evokes herbal and floral notes in equal measure: violet and peony alongside bay and wild thyme. This perfume is persistent and vivid, continuing to hover above notions of crushed blackberry. The palate comes in with a darker, riper aspect of fruit, taking this into the spectrum of black cherry, the fortified nature of the wine giving this almost a Black Forest notion of cherry, Kirsch and chocolate, yet the florality and fragrance remains. The tannins are fine, the body has wonderful elegance and such an exquisite and long echo of purest, pristine fruit. It is on the finish that the slightest grip of
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Av. Diogo Leite 256
4400 - 111 Vila Nova de Gaia
Portugal
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