Community Tasting Notes 64

• StewartWent wrote: 88 points

  September 6, 2021 - No show stopper but rather a pleasant mature red. Old red berries, old settled tannins, licorice, supporting oak. It’s easy to like. Drinks a little older than it’s 11yrs suggests.

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• Jobu wrote: 90 points

  July 31, 2020 - I had a bottle of this back in '14 when it was really young. I liked it, but didn't give it a score as I know it was young and was recommended to age for a few more years. I picked up a couple more. Gave one away, so this is my last. It definitely didn't live up to the 94 point WE score. But it is still pretty good and the flavors are pretty consistent from six years ago. Blackberry, leather, the oak has integrated and isn't overt. Smooth tannins and some acids on the finish. If I paid $40 expecting that 94 score I'd be disappointed. But, like I said years ago, at $11 no complaints.

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• garrigue65 Likes this wine: 89 points

  July 26, 2020 - Still going strong. This bottle was a wonderful qpr. Some dark fruit forward with flinty minerality on finish. Worked very well with paella..

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• Butzemann Likes this wine: 89 points

  November 30, 2019 - D+0h: quite some deposit in the filter and the bottle, smells of raspberry and cherry D+2h: dark as ink, on the rim slightly purple red, smells of smoke, leather and blackberry, light to medium body, has a certain residual sugar, so is not completely dry, smooth in the mouth with acidity, blackberry and leather, in the aftertaste blackberry and acidity, medium length (20-30 sec), a really good Douro red for the price, has improved since I tried it in 2015.

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• garrigue65 Likes this wine: 90 points

  June 13, 2019 - Wow talk about qpr... Great bottle with muted fruit and flinty and mineral finish. A pleasant surprise for an older lower priced Douro.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2011
• Type Red
• Producer Herdade do Esporão
• Varietal Red Blend
• Designation Assobio
• Vineyard Quinta dos Murças
• Country Portugal
• Region Douro
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Douro
• UPC Code 858666003206

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• In Cellars 363 (33%)
• Consumed 750 (67%)

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