Porta dos Cavaleiros Dão Red Blend

It’s amazing what fifty bucks can get ya. Leather and spice and very nice fruit. Special stuff.

Amazing night freshness for a wine this old. A lot of fun!

Ethereal

Maybe we got a bad bottle. Aromas seemed ok, a little funky, but palate tasted like a Labrador-saliva-coated tennis balls and dirty band-aids.

This is fun. So much fruit for a 30 year old wine.

Very herbaceous, well-matured and quite special

Tasting note: Corked. Exclamation point.

Enjoyed at cellar temp, or a touch under

Other than vintage port, this is the only Portuguese wine in the cellar. First encountered in a small wine shop in Vancouver BC about 5 or 6 years ago. I’m so happy to enjoy it again. Wonderfully mature, with a bouquet of forest floor, saddle leather, coffee... you get it. The wine is just where I want it to be. Low alcohol 12.5 percent or so. It’s just what happens when the winemaker builds a well defined structure that allows for graceful aging of an adolescent wine into something wizened, full of character.

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