Quinta do Vale Meão

Tinto Douro Red Blend

9.444 ratings
9.47 pro ratings
Douro, Portugal
Red Blend
Game, Baking Spices, Duck, Goose, Potato, Chili & Hot Spicy, White Rice, Exotic Spices, Pasta, Herbs, Beans & Peas, Onion, Chicken, Pork, Venison, Salami & Prosciutto, Pungent Cheese, Soft Cheese, Mushrooms, Tomato-Based, Turkey, Veal, Hard Cheese
Top Notes For
Scott Rowe

Best wine of the Portugal flight!!
Fantastic field blend of local brilliance.
Hints of dark chocolate, seamless oak and unforgettable lingering mouthfeel.

Best wine of the Portugal flight!!
Fantastic field blend of local brilliance.
Hints of dark chocolate, seamless oak and unforgettable lingering mouthfeel.

Dec 1st, 2017
Jörgen Lindström Carlvik

Owner, Brix Wine Consultants

9.6

Offering Port wannabe aromatics on the still youthful nose. On the palate, it’s beautifully structured and fresh, laced with slatey minerality and dark chocolate flavours. Needs a few years to shed its baby fat, but from 2020 through 2030+, this will be awesome.

Offering Port wannabe aromatics on the still youthful nose. On the palate, it’s beautifully structured and fresh, laced with slatey minerality and dark chocolate flavours. Needs a few years to shed its baby fat, but from 2020 through 2030+, this will be awesome.

Oct 22nd, 2017
Jörgen Lindström Carlvik

Owner, Brix Wine Consultants

9.4

A cooler vintage in the Douro. And for the first time, stems were used during fermentation has created and strict and aromatic version combining rich red berries with spice with and crushed stone flavours. Still tight but showing great promise. 94 p.

A cooler vintage in the Douro. And for the first time, stems were used during fermentation has created and strict and aromatic version combining rich red berries with spice with and crushed stone flavours. Still tight but showing great promise. 94 p.

Mar 5th, 2017
Jörgen Lindström Carlvik

Owner, Brix Wine Consultants

9.6

Ageing at a glacial pace, this is still remarkably youthful, providing stunning aromatics and slatey additions. The complex and layered palate is dense and still backward with tight yet sweet and grainy tannins creating balance thanks to a mineral core, great minerality and brilliant clarity of fruit. 2011 is more obvious but 2010 gets my vote as one of QDVM's most refined wines ever

Ageing at a glacial pace, this is still remarkably youthful, providing stunning aromatics and slatey additions. The complex and layered palate is dense and still backward with tight yet sweet and grainy tannins creating balance thanks to a mineral core, great minerality and brilliant clarity of fruit. 2011 is more obvious but 2010 gets my vote as one of QDVM's most refined wines ever

Jan 24th, 2016
Chris MacLean

Earthy notes, and good length, but the syrupy sweetness is overwhelming. An experimental cellaring miss.

Earthy notes, and good length, but the syrupy sweetness is overwhelming. An experimental cellaring miss.

Jan 27th, 2015
Tom Kobylarz

So well made, a masterful rendition of this wine and a Douro classic. One of the top Douro reds in this renowned vintage.

So well made, a masterful rendition of this wine and a Douro classic. One of the top Douro reds in this renowned vintage.

Oct 25th, 2014
Bruce Leboff

Smooth and elegant. A bit closed at the start. But a lovely wine with a side we long finish.

Smooth and elegant. A bit closed at the start. But a lovely wine with a side we long finish.

May 6th, 2023
Charles Mires

Outstanding. Maybe not best vintage.

Outstanding. Maybe not best vintage.

May 25th, 2021
Arkadiy Breganow

Лучшее вино Доуру, винтаж 2017!!!!
Best wine vintage 2017!!!! WE 100!

Лучшее вино Доуру, винтаж 2017!!!!
Best wine vintage 2017!!!! WE 100!

Jan 7th, 2021
Scott McGowan

Excellent

Excellent

Oct 31st, 2020