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1997 Quinta do Vesuvio, Port, Portugal

  • Red
  • Luscious
  • Full Bodied
Ready - mature
Jancis Robinson MW
17/20
Robert Parker
90/100
Product: 19978113892
1997 Quinta do Vesuvio, Port, Portugal
Colour Red
Sweetness Luscious
Vintage 1997
Maturity Ready - mature
Body Full Bodied
Producer Quinta do Vesuvio

Critics reviews

Jancis Robinson MW 17/20
Round and a bit loose and soft. Easy. Cinnamon notes but a bit spiky. Less mass on the palate than the others. jancis_robinson_mw MW - JancisRobinson.com – December 2008)
Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com (Dec 2008)
Robert Parker 90/100
A delicious, forward, dark saturated ruby/purple-colored port, this 1997 reveals copious quantities of jammy, grapy, black fruit flavors intermixed with earth and spice, full body, and silky tannin. It should last for two decades. (robert_parker - Wine Advocate - Jan 2000)
Robert Parker, RobertParker.com (Jan 2000)

About this wine

Quinta do Vesuvio

As a general rule, the further one travels up the Douro, the better the quality and concentration found in the fruit, though as a result of the drier conditions, the quantities are greatly reduced. The Symington Group took the plunge in 1989 and purchased Quinta do Vesuvio, which despite its remoteness, has to be the grandest quinta, with about 400 hectares of which about 100 are covered with the finest vines.
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