Winemaker Notes
An intense brick-red color with chestnut hues accompanies mouth-watering fresh aromas of candied fruit, particularly plums and figs, as well as a touch of smokiness. The palate is refreshing, with good acidity and abundant fruit, leading to a dry, elegant, and seductively long finish.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Superb aromas of toffee, coffee, prunes and lemons follow through to a full body, very sweet flavors of dried fruit, custard tart, butterscotch and more toffee. A joy to taste.
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Wine & Spirits
This young colheita has zesty fruit clarity, its creamy loquat and fresh apricot flavors brightened by floral notes of chamomile and highlights of thyme and sage. The texture is polished, bringing all the flavor together in smooth elegance.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2007 Colheita Tawny Port was bottled in 2018 with a long cork and 90 grams of residual sugar. This, basically a ten-year tawny, has typical freshness but above average complexity and just a little more concentration. Easy and dryish, this drinks well in a very balanced and refined style.
Port is a sweet, fortified wine with numerous styles: Ruby, Tawny, Vintage, Late Bottled Vintage (LBV), White, Colheita, and a few unusual others. It is blended from from the most important red grapes of the Douro Valley, based primarily on Touriga Nacional with over 80 other varieties approved for use. Most Ports are best served slightly chilled at around 55-65°F. To learn more, see our full Port Wine Guide
The home of Port—perhaps the most internationally acclaimed beverage—the Douro region of Portugal is one of the world’s oldest delimited wine regions, established in 1756. The vineyards of the Douro, set on the slopes surrounding the Douro River (known as the Duero in Spain), are incredibly steep, necessitating the use of terracing and thus, manual vineyard management as well as harvesting. The Douro's best sites, rare outcroppings of Cambrian schist, are reserved for vineyards that yield high quality Port.
While more than 100 indigenous varieties are approved for wine production in the Douro, there are five primary grapes that make up most Port and the region's excellent, though less known, red table wines. Touriga Nacional is the finest of these, prized for its deep color, tannins and floral aromatics. Tinta Roriz (Spain's Tempranillo) adds bright acidity and red fruit flavors. Touriga Franca shows great persistence of fruit and Tinta Barroca helps round out the blend with its supple texture. Tinta Cão, a fine but low-yielding variety, is now rarely planted but still highly valued for its ability to produce excellent, complex wines.
White wines, generally crisp, mineral-driven blends of Arinto, Viosinho, Gouveio, Malvasia Fina and an assortment of other rare but local varieties, are produced in small quantities but worth noting.
With hot summers and cool, wet winters, the Duoro has a maritime climate.