2011 Herdade do Esporão Esporão Reserva

Community Tasting Notes (23) Avg Score: 89.0 points

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  1/20/2023 - Campelo Filho Likes this wine: 91 Points

  After a few years in my cave, it is still pleasenant and tastefull.

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  1/15/2022 - Osvaldo Junior Likes this wine: 85 Points

  1 hora de decanter. Ficou um néctar

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  5/31/2020 - Isobel goudi Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Noch ideal zu triken, auch nach neun Jahren. Hat sicherlich etwas an Kraft eingebüßt, aber noch immer voller körper, würze etwas dunkle Frucht Tabak. Vllt nicht ganz so rund wie vergleichbare Jahrgänge.

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  1/4/2019 - forceberry wrote: 92 Points

  A blend of Alicante Bouschet, Aragonez, Trincadeira and Cabernet Sauvignon. Fermented in stainless steel and aged for 12 months in American (70%) and French (30%) oak barrels. 14,5% alcohol, 2,5 g/l residual sugar, 6,9 g/l acidity, pH 3,55.
  
  Quite dense, concentrated and almost fully opaque blackish-red color. Remarkably fragrant and attractive nose with aromas of perfumed floral tones, sweet boysenberries, some plummy dark fruits, a little bit of raspberry marmalade, light licorice tones, a hint of vanilla oak and a touch of blackberry marmalade. The wine is ripe, full-bodied and chewy on the palate with extracted, sweet-toned flavors of rich boysenberries and sunny dark fruits, perfumed floral notes, some inky character, a little bit of chocolatey oak and mocha, light blackberry marmalade tones, a hint of blackcurrant and a touch of vanilla. Overall the wine appears impressively structured with its high acidity and ripe yet very ample and grippy tannins. The concentrated mouthfeel makes the wine appear silky smooth, but the firm structure keeps the wine from coming across as soft or mellow. The finish is long, rich and grippy with sweet-toned flavors of mocha oak, boysenberries, some licorice, a little bit of plum marmalade, light vanilla tones and a hint of peppery spice.
  
  A very ripe and sweet-toned but also very structured and impressively built modernist Portuguese red. Apparently the 2011 vintage was great not only in Douro, but in southern Portugal as well. Contrasting my previous taste 4 years ago, age seems to have benefited this wine noticeably, since the oakier tones have integrated a little with the fruit - although the wine still shows quite a bit of oak influence - and the wine doesn't feel that excessively over-the-top anymore. The wine still could use some further aging in the hopes it would drop its baby fat and integrate its oak some more - fortunately the wine is built like it could take lots of years more. Good stuff.

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  1/4/2019 - Lype Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Good refined structure, starting to reveal nice balance between fruit, tannins and acidity. Very promising, I would wait 2-3 years before opening the next bottle. This vintage lives up to its reputation.

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