Community Tasting Notes 8

• ccn wrote: 94 points

  March 1, 2024 - My first BV and wow! Volume is turned up to 11 here. Huge tobacco and cedar notes with incredible length and amplitude. The wine was completely open from the first moment and surprisingly did not evolve or fade at all over two hours. I think the wine is at Peak, but will stay here for quite some time.

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• Lollipop Likes this wine: 95 points

  February 24, 2024 - Broken cork. Deep violet colour. Powerful nose of tobacco, menthol, cypress. Alcohol was well intigrated. Absolutely delicious from the start. Didn’t evolve much. Just entering drinking window. Will continue to evolve and improve for a long time.

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• jlgnml Likes this wine: 96 points

  August 31, 2022 - Degustateurs with 1955 bookends. (Oceanique Restaurant Evanston IL): 2 hour decant. Had high hopes for this wine and it did not disappoint. Youthful Port like color and nose. On the palate this was silky smooth. Developed over time in the glass and just was terrific. Hold for 3-5 years and no end in sight. Buy and hold

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• the player Likes this wine: 94 points

  August 6, 2022 - Deep crimson color. Cork broke in 2 but bottle pristine. Deep crimson red color, hints of light purple signalling how young this wine still is despite almost 14 years of age. On the nose very shy in the outset but opens up after an hour or more in the decanter to dark red fruits, candied cassis, sweet spice, hints of tobacco, and strawberries. Very unique and my first bottle of this iconic Douro king of reds so I couldn't quite place it. Dry entry on the palate, very youthful, exploding dark red and black fruits mid palate, solid tannins but velvety, complex structure but hardly any secondary notes, perfect balance and power, long drying and powerful spicy fruit finish. Very intriguing to my palate but certainly a heck or a wine. Almost perplexing like a young solid Rhône wine..

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• BenSlivka Likes this wine: 92 points

  May 6, 2022 - Bought this at a wine shop in Regua on the Douro River. Very expensive! Gorgeous and Harmonious. Way too young -- we had the CF 1992 Reserva from Magnum last night, and it was more austere yet more developed. I would wait at least to 2032 before tasting this again. Wonderful experience.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2008
• Type Red
• Producer Casa Ferreirinha
• Varietal Red Blend
• Designation Barca Velha
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Portugal
• Region Douro
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Douro
• UPC Codes 4000137347081, 5601007001974, 5601009941636

Community Holdings

• Pending Delivery 7 (2%)
• In Cellars 315 (83%)
• Consumed 58 (15%)

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