2011 Quinta das Bágeiras Garrafeira

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 89.6 points

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  5/8/2024 - cofidis2 Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Approaching 13 yrs old, you’d never know by tasting it. Chalky tannins, tar, saddle leather, acidity, and blackberries. Well structured with a lingering chalky finish. This has years, more likely decades, to go. 100% Baga from very old vines. 94/100 points.

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  8/1/2022 - Montesquieu wrote: 90 Points

  I still feel the same way about this wine as I did on 6/16/2022, the first of three bottles consumed. Immensely tannic, dry, meaty, and earthy. The polar opposite of a fruit-forward New World wine. Wine Advocate's drinking window extends to 2045, and they're probably right. This has hardly evolved in its first 11 years. I can imagine its turning into something intensely mushroomy and therefore great, but that will take another 1-2 decades. My bottles won't retain their slots for that long. Maybe someone will come back and tell me how great this wine becomes in 2040.

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  6/16/2022 - Montesquieu Likes this wine: 91 Points

  A bruiser of a wine. Loaded with tannins, earth, tar. The old vines produced a wine with structure and stuffing to go a long time. One could pave their tarmac with this. Probably decades of life left. I don't know how this evolves during that lifetime, but I'd guess there's high potential for this at eventual maturity. I'm still giving this a solid 91 rating today while limiting my recommendation to those comfortable with an earthy style of unfamiliar grapes. This is a stylistic opposite of fruit-driven, New World reds. My rating reflects my preference for Old World over New World styles.

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  3/29/2020 - seanucsb wrote: 88 Points

  100% Baga from 90 year old vines from the Bairrada, Portugal. Full bodied, purple plums, smoked meat and monster tannins from a 9 year old wine. Great acidity balance helps wash those mouth grippers down.

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  3/8/2020 - fanglangzhe Likes this wine: 89 Points

  dark fruits, leather, ink, minty oak. med acidity. long finish.

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