2017 Quinta do Noval Porto Vintage

Community Tasting Notes (10) Avg Score: 96 points

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  9/27/2023 - SuperSomm Likes this wine:

  Deep purple colour with hints of ruby. Pronounced nose with ripe blackberry, ripe blueberry, ripe dark cherry, eucalyptus, vanilla, black pepper and sweet tobacco. Pronounced taste of ripe blackberry, ripe blueberry, ripe dark cherry, eucalyptus, vanilla, sweet tobacco and sweet black pepper. Long and sweet finish. High acidity. Medium (+) and velvety tannins. Full body. A great Vintage Port with huge potential and a great balance. Drink now or keep for at least ten years. Goes well with meditation.

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  12/31/2021 - Frank-H Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Very very good Port but still needs more time to reach it’s potential. 93+ and going up with age.

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  11/26/2021 - Port-Lover Likes this wine: 97 Points

  2017 delivered as well. I had the notes of iron gallus and ink, that I smelled and tasted in many wines of 2017. Lots of fruits, very wild and rough now, but good now, just too young. Will be a great wine in 30 years.

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  9/13/2020 - wjw wrote: 94 Points

  Wine is staill in its infancy. But still every enjoyable, with lots of cherries and currants. Firm alcohol, interesting sweet sour layering

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  7/21/2020 - Elpaninaro Likes this wine:

  As with the 2017 Taylor Fladgate tasted last week, this is a truly exceptional Port. Deepest purple color with red flashes- like the finest Amethyst from Africa, glorious nose with waves of spicy plums and dark fruits, fig notes, fine mineral sand textures, on the palate this actually has more fruit volume than the 2016 but also the structure to keep it all in rein, if 2017 Taylor is a muscular young Latour then 2017 Noval is a vibrant young Vogue Musigny- raging and yet elegant with the essence of crushed red and black berries coated with ribbons of baking spices and gravelly limestone, at opening the elements were more in synch than was the case with Taylor, after two days it has also become far more subdued and completely drinkable if still painfully primary, cuddly plum, blackberry and dark cherry fruits roll over the palate in waves that almost coat the strong dark tannins leading into a fine long spicy finish, countless little savories peeking out here and there- dried tea leaves, earth, blueberries and bramble, where the Taylor is majestic- this is thrilling, quite possibly the sexiest young Port I have ever tasted, I think this will be accessible sooner than most but will still require much patience to go the distance and show in full all the marvelous little nuances that merely tease at present.
  
  **(***), 2030-2100+

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