2019, Quinta do Vesuvio Vintage PORT wineA blend of 35% Touriga Nacional, 33% Touriga Franca, 18% Alicante Bouschet, 8% vinha velha (field blend) and 6% Tinta Amarela. The 2019 growing season had a little over 50% of the average winter rainfall in the Douro and almost none in the summer. Fortunately, showers at the end of August helped the grapes achieve balance. Head Winemaker, Charles Symington, exercised patience and precisely timed the picking over six weeks making it one of the longest

mandarin peel and clove

A deep colour

95/100 Georgina Hindle

Bright and racy

The fruit is precise

much of which are characterized by clay-rich gravels

the 2020 Guillot Clauzel has turned out beautifully

Certainly one of the more intense aromatics in Pauillac with disarming purity

the 2016 Proprietary Red Wine is deep purple-black in colour and quite reticent at this youthful stage to begin

A good success and will be interesting to taste in bottle

careful soil work

A beautiful La Conseillante courtesy of winemaker Marielle Cazaux and her team