Quinta do Noval, Tawny 40YO Port

Taste it at the Quinta shop in Pinhão. Didn't note the bottling year. Nose of dried fruit, cedar, and honey. On the palate figs, caramel, marzipan, and plum compote. Spectacularly long finish.

I picked up 3 of these at auction a couple of years ago. The other two were drinkable but faded, spirity and past best. This was similar but slightly better. No seepage but a loose cork on opening. That was the problem with all three. Much of the colour has dropped out, looks like an aged tawny. Better nose, plummy, tobacco, hint of dried fruit. Past best but still a decent flavour, light but decent intensity. Solid port but should …

1985 vintage

Its a dense tawny. Not as refined as others. Color is deep, I think the blending is a bit too unrefined compared to other 10 yrs. Drinkable but average at best.

Just delicious. Chocolate, prunes, raisins, figs, blackberry pie, black tea. Great acidity that cuts through the sweetness. Enjoyed over two days so far and only getting better.

2008 vintage

Noval event - noticeably lighter and more tawny color than the 64 and 66 Nacional, or even the 66 Noval VP. Bit of VA on the nose. Hmm...maybe this bottle is not the best. Palate is better with plentiful caramel, nuts and white sugar. But yet, seems a bit stripped. I feel this might not be a representative bottle. Not even close to the intensity of 63 Warre had earlier this year.

1963 vintage

Noval event - deep, dark and heady nose. Slight medicinal cherry. Powerful Port with strong and youthful components. Lacks a bit of integration yet but great potential.

1997 vintage

This has 3 years extra bottle age but retains freshness & vigour. Characterful panache.

Last bottle. Bit of a mystery as my inventory showed zero. So glad to have found it!

2000 vintage

2024 bottling. I find some of the 30 & 40 year Tawnys a bit tired and faded. But this was vibrant, balanced & quite delicious. It is worth its high price. So enjoyable to savor.

At Quinta do Noval’s tasting room in Pinhão. 22% ABV. Medium brown colour. Raisins, dried cherries, coffee, walnut, peanut, salted caramel, mushroom, spices, clove furniture polish, and some VA, with good acidity, and great persistence. Nutty, and very sweet, with warming alcohol. Outshone by the Quinta do Vallado 40-Year-Old Tawny I had the other week.

Amber. Lovely dried apricot and hazelnut aromas. A tad too dense and unctuous for my liking but drinkable nonetheless. Inexpensive. USD$18. EK315

Quercus alba (Chicago, IL) : One of the best bottles of Port I've had. Pale pink in colour. There's something brilliant about the way this manifests both very youthful, sweet red fruit and shows plenty of maturity at the same time. It's mildly aldehydic, showing a herbal/almond touch and despite the high alcohol, relatively mild and delicate. Long finish with a pronounced dried fig note.

1963 vintage

App: Pale, garnet with onion rim. Nose: medium plus intensity. Quite perfumed, floral and fig notes than expected, super harmonious and complex. Palate: sweet, very sharp and precise acidity, high alcohol obviously but really balanced and harmonious, pronounced flavor intensity, extremely rich, concentrated and ever evolving on the palate with plum, fig, toasted walnut and savoury notes unfolding one after another. The finish is extremely long and lingering with nuanced fine details coming on and on. Absolutely love it! The …

This was nice, a bit richer than some tawny ports, though I must say that I am partial to Prager Port Tawny!

Sweet, perfurmed, red fruits - ripe cherry. Still quite primary, needs time to open up.

1963 vintage

Deep colour, touch pale at rim, Cloves, anise on the nose , dark fruit, fresh, Dusty spiciness, moving into baking spices, supple tannins, Dark chocolate, leather. Very young.

2000 vintage

Like the previous bottle a bit disappointing. Faded colour, some fruit but a bit light which leaves the finish a bit spirity. Probably past best. Drink soon.

1985 vintage

Notes of crushed walnut, oak, caramel, reduced cherry compote and cooked strawberry. The finish is long and sweet.

Christmas Party - Wine Club (@MichaelsPlace) : Dark plum and blackberries and still very youthful. There are some spices but the wine is currently mostly primary dark fruit. Still, a very lovely wine that will continue to improve as it evolves. Impressive!

2000 vintage

Peppery, powerful. Leather and smoke. Alcohol noticeable. Quite different taste profile from most vintage ports in my experience. Very interesting.

2000 vintage

Fragrance was floral with a hint of wildflowers. Although the color was slightly brown, as one would expect in a 70-year-old port, the flavor the finish were all outstanding represented the best of what vintage port. really can be even after 70 years. A small decant Helped clear some of the cork blackberry blackcurrant and dark cherry were all fabulous on the finish.

1963 vintage

First of three bought recently at auction. Soft cork fell apart on opening. Colour has dropped out leaving a tawny looking port. Spirity at first but some fruit does show up and we drank it over two evenings. Simple port flavours, lacks depth and energy. How much of this is down to the port and how much down to the cork I won’t know until I open another. Drink up.

1985 vintage

JN 3 Oct 2024 - Coloured as if a tawny. No fruit left. Completely OTT. Return to sender. Should be much better.

1985 vintage

Cheese & wine pairing masterclass, dark, rich, dark fruits, sweet, young, hay & figs nose with time, long, good match with blue cheese Fourme d’Ambert

2008 vintage

Drank at 67 Rich full and delicious

1997 vintage

Not particularly deep or interesting. Mostly got sugar and alcohol. The second day there were some nut/chocolate notes.

1963 vintage

Stunning!

My last - a bottle that was briefly flooded 3+ decades ago but although labeless still in good nick. Opened as weather so unseasonably cool we decided port was the only answer!! Aerated decant. Fully mature. Bricking with significant meniscus. Lightly spiced charred dark fruits, gentle sweetness and balancing acidity. All elements including alcohol fully integrated and balanced. Vinous with a medium bodied finish. Held up well in decanter over three days. Past its best and for drinking up over …

1985 vintage

maybe a bit past it's peak but still good. Spicy, lots of red fruits, medium tannin, warm,

1982 vintage

Port can be so attractive when it's young that it's easy to go through your bottles of a given wine before they peak. Fortunately I have a few more of this beauty stashed away. This bottle showed a wonderful balance of sweetness and backbone while displaying a very deep color right to the rim. More pleasures to come as it ages--will ideally go back to this in 5 years or so.

2008 vintage

💭 Merry Christmas everyone! We’ve come close to a close of another year. While the kids have their presents, the adults can indulge. NA Quinta do Noval 10 year old Tawny Port: Deep copper. Growing up in South East Asia, the notes reminds me of a typical traditional medicine store with umeshu (梅酒 Japanese liqueur made by steeping unripe ume plums in liqueur and sugar), and dried monk fruit (Lo Hon Guo / 羅漢果), dried herbs, wood, and underlying nuts, …

From a 2002 bottling with significant sediment. Unusually light in color and body for a 40 year tawny, is it possible that this bottle was kept a bit too long? I was not very impressed with the wine, but I may have been spoiled by a recent diet of stunning old tawnies from Quinta do Mourão and Vieira de Sousa.

A blend of Touriga Nacional, Touriga Francesa, Tinto Cão, Sousão and Tinta Roriz from different vineyards in Douro. The wine is blended from different vintages that have been aging in old oak pipes , resulting in a blend with an average age of 10 years. The wine was bottled in 2023. 19,5% alcohol. Medium-deep cherry-red color with an oxidative maroon hue. Although the wine is a Tawny Port, the nose is still pretty red-toned with aromas of wizened cherries, some …

Mainly a blend of Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca and Tinto Cão; all fruit sourced from the Noval estate vineyards in Pinhão. The fruit is trodden by foot in granite lagares , then the fermentation is arrested at 19,5% ABV by fortification and the wine is moved to age in large oak casks. This wine was bottled unfiltered in 2014, at the age of approximately two years. Lot L4192. 19,5% alcohol, 89 g/l residual sugar, 4,6 g/l acidity and pH 3,78. …

2012 vintage

3 hour decant. No detailed notes. Style was relatively dry and quite structured for a port, but we liked it, Dropped an incredible amount of sediment - almost like a crusted port.

1997 vintage

floral, fruit, and herbal teas and essences, dried stone fruits, dates, figs, carob and coco powder, light roast coffee beans, incense, spring and summer potpourri, pipe tobacco, loam, black earth, and mineral ores. The wine tastes like it smells, delivered in inflection changing waves. Exceptional structure and balance. It holds form through a complex finish of mind-bending length. Greater restraint and Old World appeal than the 2013 tasted alongside. Likely to hold form for five to seven years, perhaps ten. …

2008 vintage

A revelation of complexity. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Tawny color. Glorious aromas of toffy, chocolate dust, crème brulee. On the palate, medium-bodied, smooth, lovely acidity, ethereal, layered clouds of flavor- white chocolate, caramel, creamy honey, jam. More toffy and chocolate. No sense of alcohol. So alive. Clean. Elegant. Exquisite. It just doesn’t get much better than this! Among my most satisfying wine experiences, hands down.

1963 vintage

I still remember tasting this on release, and it seems to be progressing, albeit slowly, along the expected track. Has the telltale Noval anise and tar notes, along with dark fruit, moderate sweetness, tannins are present but fine and have resolved well enough to make this very drinkable. For those who like their Port more resolved, this has a long way to go, probably another 20 years. But for those of us who appreciate more youthful notes, it’s in a …

2000 vintage

Amazing. Still masses of rich flavours and no sense of rancio

1963 vintage

Merry Christmas everyone! We’ve come close to a close of another year. While the kids have their presents, the adults can indulge. NA Quinta do Noval 10 year old Tawny Port: Deep copper. Growing up in South East Asia, the notes reminds me of a typical traditional medicine store with umeshu (梅酒 Japanese liqueur made by steeping unripe ume plums in liqueur and sugar), and dried monk fruit (Lo Hon Guo / 羅漢果), dried herbs, wood, and underlying nuts, and …

For me this 10 year old tawny do the job. I tasted their Nacional 2019 last friday so I had to buy and try this Tawny. Nice job

Violets and blue fruits. A clean spirit tinged with light florals. Luscious and layered, blueberries and strawberries in the mouth. Good detail. Some chocolate and licorice with air. Long and fleshy. Great balance and so delicious.

2001 vintage

Small x3 Vintage Port Tasting : Creamy butterscotch, walnuts and touch of orange. Very expressive and intense long aftertaste. Absolutely stunning wine! This is just an absolutely stunning and complete glass of wine. Perfectly aged and it is certainly at its peak right now!

1963 vintage

By the glass. Still a spicy nose and dried lavender herbs. On the palate ending with a bitter chocolate aftertaste. Representative that offers a brittle balance, a certain sweetness, excessive maturity and an aristocratic decadence rather than a firm precision. This bottle has certainly been through better days. Por copas. Todavía una nariz especiada y de hierbas de lavanda secas. En boca terminando con un retrogusto de chocolate amargo. Representante que ofrece un quebradizo equilibrio, cierta dulzura, excesiva madurez y …

1963 vintage

Beautiful color shifting towards brick-red, immediately on the nose, a myriad of intoxicating aromas is released, elevated by the wine's significant alcohol content. Mature dark fruit, in jam form, hints of spices, cinnamon, anise, a touch of peach blossom. Fragrant noble wood, almost medicinal iodine notes. In the mouth, it is alcoholic and sweet, with tremendous persistence and refreshed by a lovely acidity. We should all drink more port... Bellissimo colore che volge al mattonato, subito al naso si sprigiona …

This is a lovely port, bursting with figs, pipe tobacco and finishing off with a long fruity exuberance. Surprisingly more mature than a Ruby.

91P. 4,1⭐️😃 🇵🇹 Dense garnet color with ruby tones👁️. Candied and dried fig, raisin and cassis with oak, vanilla, caramel, dark chocolate, and hazelnut, almond and walnut notes👃. Creamy and silky at mouth, soft tannins in a long persistence and candied cassis aftertaste 👄. 🍇 Touriga Nacional, Touriga Francesa, Tinto Cão, Sousão, Tinta Roriz. 20% alcohol. A combination of different vintages with an average age of 10 years. Great Porto. 😃

Medium tawny-brick. Plum, leather, mineral, floral, dried orange peel, grape, pomegranate, brandy. Medium sweet, medium plus acidity and tannins, high alcohol, full body.

1982 vintage

After 60 years the port was still fruity and delicious. Slight brandy notes but otherwise really well balanced with just a hint of velvet tannin. Wonderful 60th birthday prsent

1963 vintage

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