Jakub Kalinowski

9.2

Expressive nose with waxy lemons, a bit of matchstick reduction, some brioche. There’s also some white peach, white flowers. Quite complex. Rich and yet fresh. Intriguing & enticing.
Beautiful texture on the palate, love the mouthfeel. Layered, quite rich, impeccably balanced & poised.
Very elegant. Slightly creamy texture balanced by racy, juicy acidity. Yellow stone fruit in the back. And a long, saline finish.
Somehow I didn’t like it a year ago, maybe it was a bad bottle.
This is really signing! — a year ago

Sipping Fine Wine

9.2

Made from low yielding 90-year old vines, deep Ruby with aromas of red/black fruits and floral spice. On the palate flavors of blackberry and plum with cacao, black pepper and floral citrus. Firm tannins on a long finish ending with fruit and mineral character. Nice but needs a few years in big the bottle!! — 6 years ago

JKT

9.3

GL Portugal tasting 2/15/17. Nose with violets and savoriness that seemed to have opened up with time. At first more fruit driven. Palate that's really complex and yummy. More complex than'13 which suffered from a heat wave. 60% new oak and. Only 48 bottles left! — 9 years ago

Tom Kobylarz

10

Another rare Douro Beauty, this is harder to find than most cult wines and unicorns! Beautifully expressive of place, with more red fruits and a little more opulence than the Rio. An exceptional wine and on my list of must finds. — 10 years ago

Nick O'Neill

9.4

Great desert wine — 12 years ago

Eve charest

9.8

With portugaise cheese and saucissons.. looking at the sunset of Porto!
Amazing! So good! — 2 years ago

Brian Lenich

9.2

Awasi first lunch with JoAnn Amy and Jason — 4 years ago

John Kanellopoulos

9.5

The Portuguese are teaching me at least that blending many vines with passion can produce exquisite experiences: refined, good body, smooth Ramon’s for a young wine, robust color l, varying aromas-really changing constantly!!! — 9 years ago

Lawrence Bernstein

8.9

Young nice concentrated fruit. 89 — 10 years ago

Patty Ledonne

9.1

Estate old vineyards over 40 varieties blended or mixed throughout the plots. Nice, soft some spice. Sold out of 2011 which was a great year. Look for this. — 11 years ago

Robert Stackowiak

9.1

A solid Douro blend. Smoothed Tannins. Bright. A nice pairing with beef tacos. September 2022. — 4 years ago

Jeroen Koenen

9.4

Rich, dense and concentrated. Powerful wine, long and complex
Great with this codfish and chickpea dish from chef Rui Paula.
@delectable: 2017 Vale D. Maria - vinha de Martim - Douro White blend — 5 years ago

Alli Rosen

9.0

Needs to be chilled a bit, good flavor, blend of 20 grape varieties, smoky but still seems light — 9 years ago

Bronx

9.1

#winesofportugal tasting — 10 years ago

Sipps

9.7

Wonderful wine- concentrated blend of fruit, spicy. Goes well with red velvet cake. Happy Valentine's Day — 11 years ago

Tom Kobylarz

9.3

Dark ruby red core with red edges. Beautiful nose, medium to full bodied, elegant red fruits, cherry, sauve tannins, with good acidity, long and persistent vintage. Classy wine. — 13 years ago