42€
approx. £38.09
O Produtor, tasting note published in March 30th 2016
With a bright, citrus colour, the nose on this wine includes citrus fruits, vanilla, white spices and a note of mineral granite. Complex, intense, subtle and well balanced, its concentration and elegance make for a very serious wine.
Manual selection of the grapes at the entrance to the winery, followed by pressing of the whole grapes. Aged in French and Hungarian oak barrels at low temperatures. “Elevage” for 9 months in the same barrels (35% new wood) “sur lie”, with “battonage” every 2 weeks.
18/20 pts – Wine, Portugal
17,5/20 pts – Revista de Vinhos, Portugal
92-94/100 pts – Robert Parker, USA
Contains sulphites.
SKU: 101312
Quinta Nova de Nossa Senhora do Carmo is a place of extreme beauty in the heart of Douro valley and owned by Amorim family since 1999.
The family connection to the wine comes from afar, through its connection with the export houses of Vila Nova de Gaia in the cork business. Meanwhile the dream came true and the project is now in the hands of the 4th generation of the family.
With a story longer than 250 years, the property displays conserved structures and the cellar original building from 1764, after interventions by the architect Arnaldo Barbosa.
But the «quinta» is much earlier than this and history confirms it as a great land belonging to the Portuguese Royal House, having been identified its first owner in 1725.
The winery produced more than 3,500 barrels of wine from neighboring estates and it was soon ‘integrated in the first demarcation of the region’. The historic sites that are still preserved give notice to this historic weight.
An entrepreneur spirit and family vision did however the difference because, combined with a passionate commitment to the future, determined the beginning of multiple changes to a path of oenological excellence.
Quinta Nova de Nossa Senhora do Carmo, S.A
Quinta Nova
5085-222 Covas do Douro – Portugal
