Quinta Vale Dona Maria Tinto 2018

€ 59.00

An elegant and fresh red wine, deep red and purple with a rich concentration of ripe red fruit, black cherry and plum, and a fruity touch in the aftertaste

Food pairing

A delicious wine ideal for hearty red meat and game dishes

Grapes : A blend of 41 different castes, including Rufete, Tinta Amarela, Tinta Francisca, Sousão, Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz and many others typical of the Douro, from the old vines of Quinta Vale D Maria, aged over 60 years, vineyards with exposure to the South, Southeast, Southwest, East and West. The grapes of these fields presented an average graduation of 14 ° Baumé at the entrance of the winery.

All the grapes are trodden in mills 1-3 days before fermentation, and then fermented for 7 to 10 days at temperatures of 22 to 27 °C, with manual pigeages. The wines are transferred to new French oak barrels of 225 or 300 liters from different tantrums (Seguin Moreau, François Frères, Taransaud, Louis Latour and Berthomieu), where the malolactic fermentation takes place. All wines were then aged for 21 months in French oak barrels (75% new barrels and 25% one-year barrels), and the different batches obtained from each fermentation were kept completely separate until the composition of the final batch, about one month before bottling.

Alcohol content

14,5 %

Store & Serve

Open 2 to 3 hours in advance to breathe. Serve at 16-18 °C .

From now to at least 10 years after harvest year to drink

Critics & Awards

18/20 - Grandes Escolhas - Tasted: Apr 2021

92/100 - Falstaff - Tasted: Feb 2022

93/100 - Wine Enthusiast - Tasted: Dec 2021

95/100 - Andreas Larsson - Tasted Mar 2022

Bright dark purple core and hue. Pure and intense nose offering violet, rose petal, cassis, dark cherry and gingerbread spices. Very dense and vigorous palate with high concentration, fine extraction and grainy tannin, well integrated oak and digest dark fruit notes, very muscular, yet elegant with a very long lingering finish.

Tags: Quinta Vale Dona Maria - Douro