Description

Year: 2007, an exceptional Vintage Porto year. A cool growing season by Douro standards brought a later harvest of high-quality fruit — mature yet fresh, never raisined. Grapes: Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinta Barroca and other varietals from our older vines. Terroir: schist soils, arid Mediterranean climate, grade-A vineyards. Winemaking: foot-trodden 3–4 hours a day for 2 days in traditional lagares, then 2 days of temperature-controlled fermentation, fortified with grape brandy when half the natural sugar remains; aged 19 years in neutral French oak puncheons and bottled in 2026. 1,450 bottles. Alcohol: 20.5%.