Community Tasting Notes 18

• ChateauShiny Likes this wine: 91 points

  July 1, 2023 - If I had to describe this wine in one word, it's Dense.
  
  Deep garnet with a bit of ruby. Deep and dense nose of dark cocoa, oak driven baking spices, dark plums, apricots, peaches, black cherries, blackberries, eucalyptus, tobacco leaf, and a hint of vanilla. Medium heavy bodied, fresh, lively tart acidity, and continues down the dark and dense theme. Tart blackberries, plums, apricots, leather and a huge breadth of spices. The stone fruit characteristics I noticed really helped break up the brooding palate. Moderate chewy tannins. The finish of tobacco leaf, dark cocoa, dark minerals, and the remainder of the chewy tannins.
  
  This doesn't show its age - would never have guessed it was a 2001. Well integrated oak. I am glad I have another bottle of this hidden away in the cellar.

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• CarpeDiem! Likes this wine: 90 points

  July 5, 2019 - You would not immediately guess that this young fella has almost 20 years of age. Dense nose of fresh dark fruit and subtle wood notes. Medium bodied in the mouth, well structured, balancing crispy red fruit with leather, cedar and herbal notes. If you have more bottles left I suggest give them another 3-5 years. This is a marathon man.

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• forceberry wrote: 89 points

  June 12, 2018 - Tasted in a vertical of all the released vintages of Redoma from 1991 until 2009. A blend of mostly Touriga Franca, Touriga Nacional, Tinta Roriz, Tinta Amarela and Tinto Cão along with a few dozen other varieties. Fermented in stainless steel and aged for 18 months in 228-liter French oak pièces (70% new). 13,5% alcohol, 5,93 g/l acidity, pH 3,54, free SO2 at the time of bottling 39 mg/l. Total production 20,400 bottles.
  
  Very dense, opaque blackish red color that turns slightly mahogany towards the lighter rim, yet still retains deep plummy purple core. Very rich, modern and extracted nose with complex, dark-toned aromas of sweet dark berries, eucalyptus, mocha, some liquorice, a little bit of sweet toasty oak, a hint of smoke and a touch of herbal minty character. The wine is ripe, dense and very full-bodied on the palate with extracted, chewy mouthfeel and rich, dark-toned flavors of sweet oak spice, ripe and juicy blackberries, some minty herbal character, a little bit of liquorice, chocolatey hints of toasty oak and a green-toned touch of chopped aromatic herbs and apple slices. The wine is still incredibly structured and tightly-knit with its remarkably high acidity and very firm, unyielding wall of tannins. The finish is dense, chewy and grippy with bold, sweet flavors of ripe plums, juicy dark berries, mocha, some herbal minty character, a little bit of tannic bitterness and a bittersweet hint of dark chocolate.
  
  According to the winery, this is thought to be one of the best vintages of Redoma - if not the best - but to me this wine felt both ridiculously youthful and extremely modernist in its oak-heavy character. At well over 15 years of age, this wine was still noticeably oak-driven with the oak flavors showing rather little integration with the sweet, bold fruit. I wasn't particularly thrilled with this vintage when there were so many harmonious and elegant vintages of Redoma tasted before and after it, but - truth be told - the wine felt extremely youthful despite its age and most likely it will take much, much more time before the oak character gets integrated well enough with the fruit. Furthermore, as the fruit showed little to no sense of development yet and the massive tannins having resolved barely at all, it's safe to say the wine is still miles away from its apogee. As the wine seems to age at a geological pace, I wouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the day, this actually turned out to be the longest-lived vintage of Redoma made.

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• Biggsy wrote: 89 points

  November 23, 2015 - The nose is full of tarry black fruit and cedar. It’s quite big and dense like the last bottle but has a nice bright and juicy feel on the entry. There’s a tartness to the fruits and a good grip from the spicy tannins. A bit more savoury on the finish with a nice meaty character coming through.

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• tcfishler wrote:

  November 25, 2012 - Dark red. The tannic structure has resolved with a decade of age but the sense of extract and fruit skin tart/bitter qualities remain, all balanced by dense yet dry fruit. Solid stuff.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2001
• Type Red
• Producer Niepoort
• Varietal Red Blend
• Designation Redoma
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Portugal
• Region Douro
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Douro
• UPC Codes 1000000000153, 5602840072503

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• In Cellars 53 (50%)
• Consumed 53 (50%)

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