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By Stephen Tanzer
(Niepoort Redoma Tinto Douro) Login and sign up and see review text.
March/April 1999, IWC Issue #83, (See more on Vinous...)
1/8/2019 - Will Devize wrote: 93 Points
Drank at Londrino. Splendid! Has the ravishing bite of cru Bojo with some of the ethereal purity of Chambolle. This really fans out on the palate and is in a perfect spot.
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6/12/2018 - forceberry wrote: 93 Points
Tasted in a vertical of all the released vintages of Redoma from 1991 until 2009. Made from a blend of Tinta Amarela, Tinta Roriz and Touriga Francesa from vineyards with an average age of 55 years. Bottled unfiltered in July 1997. 13,5% alcohol.
The wine is noticeably pale, translucent and luminous raspberry red with surprisingly little age evident in the appearance. Basically all the other 1990's vintages were much deeper in hue. The nose feels quite muted and understated at first, showing very little beyond dusty earth, some sweet plummy tones and a medicinal hint of VA. However, the nose starts to open up with air, revealing aromas of boysenberries, juicy plums and a sweet hint of cooked beet roots. The wine is medium-bodied and very intense on the palate, showing less of that typically supple and juicy Douro character, being instead more crunchy and sinewy with very pronounced, almost sharp acidity. There are flavors of tart cranberries and lingonberries, sour cherry bitterness, some gamey and sanguine notes of iron, a little bit of earth and a touch of smoke. Overall the wine is very muscular and tightly-knit with atypically high acidity and quite pronounced, grippy tannins. For a wine almost a quarter of century old, this is remarkably youthful in style. The finish is long, dry and rather taut with quite pronounced bitterness and tightly-knit flavors of sour cherries, bloody game, some cranberries, a little bit of stony minerality and a hint of sour plums.
Overall this wine seemed to divide opinion: some considered it too thin and linear, while me and a handful of others appreciated the bright and almost racy character of the wine, its remarkably youthful style and the vibrancy of its red-fruited flavors. If you are looking for a big and ripe Douro red, this wine might be a let-down for you, but as a fan of more Burgundian wines and cooler vintages of classical Bordeaux, this wine really pushed my buttons. It feels like it is still going up, so there's no hurry whatsoever to pop these babies open. It is strongly recommended to decant the wine as there was quite a bit of deposit in the bottle. Serve with food hearty enough to tame down the structure of the wine a bit.
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11/13/2012 - Jason Millar wrote:
If you are one of those people who likes eating Bonjela out of the tube and finds happy childhood memories prompted by the whiff of Calpol, then this wine is for you. While there is still some bright, gummy liqueur cherry fruit at the centre, the medicinal overtones ride roughshod over any of the delicacy you might expect to find in a good aged wine, and leave it feeling rather sweet by association. While that spoonful of sugar undeniably helps the medicine go down, this is more of a curiosity than a pleasure. I have not scored this because the bottle was not in perfect condition, although it was drinkable (for some).
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11/12/2012 - Will Devize wrote: 91 Points
Quite volatile and medicinal; plenty of bright red fruit. A lot going on although far from classically complex. A bit top-heavy but there are also plenty of wonderfully quixotic tones on the palate. This bottle was slightly oxidative, will not decant the next one for so long (6 hours).
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11/16/2008 - RKatzDO wrote: 90 Points
not bad, not bad at all.. Needs a few months in the cellet, but great!
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