2018 Quinta do Vesuvio

Origin
Douro, Port/vintage port, Fortifieds PORTUGAL
Colour
red
Wine Style
sweet
Dominant Grape
Touriga Nacional blend
Closure Style
cork
Maturity
young
Bottle Size
75cl
Case Quantity
6
Alcohol
20%
Wine Score
93 points, Neal Martin, vinous.com, May 2020
92-94 points, Mark Squires, robertparker.com, December 2020 17+ points, Jancis Robinson MW, jancisrobinson.com, June 2020
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2018 Quinta do Vesuvio

Media Reviews

Neal Martin

The 2018 Quinta do Vesuvio has a plush bouquet of black fruit laced with clove, nougat, boysenberry jam and white pepper. I would have liked a little more precision here. The palate is medium-bodied with impressive spicy attack on the entry - cracked black pepper and bitter orange, touches of liquorice and mint towards the well structured finish. Moderate length. A quality Vesuvio that deserves several years in bottle. 93 points

Mark Squires

The 2018 Vintage Port is a blend of 54% Touriga Nacional and 40% Touriga Franca and Alicante Bouschet combined, with miscellaneous others filling out the blend. It comes in with 112 grams of residual sugar. This is one of the two Ports being released en primeur now by the Symingtons in this issue. If you are judging the group on concentration and power, this is easily the winner, the one with the biggest upside. There are some other points to make, though. You may like the style of some others more. Inky black, it is also probably the most concentrated Port in the group, although it doesn`t seem to quite scale the heights of, say, the 2017. The signature features here will be the pungent aromatics and the big, ripe fruit. Actually, it is not only big in flavor, it`s a little flamboyant. There is a nuance on the finish that makes it seem especially ripe; it will be interesting to see if that folds into the whole in time. The baked plums up front suggest very ripe Touriga Nacional, in particular. Then, the hammer falls, and this shows off a fair bit of power too, especially the next day. It was by far, also, the 2018 in this article that was most on top of its game when tasted a couple of days later. It will be interesting to see where this goes. It certainly has potential. There were 965 cases produced. 92-94 points

Jancis Robinson MW

Deep, blackish purple colour. Prunes plus freshness (Sousao?) on the nose. Very sweet start and yet with real life and spine to it. Tight and focused with real lift. Very much more t han just ripe. Great concentration. Youthful with a real framework. 17+ points

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