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2007 QUINTA DE LA ROSA, Late Bottled Vintage (50cl bottle)

Alcohol Percentage: 20%
Area: Warm summers and the steep, granitic slopes of the Douro valley make for low yields and some of the ripest, most intense red grapes in the world. Add alcohol half way through fermentation and you get the lusciously sweet but serious and long-lived style of wine we all know as Port
Grape Variety: Touriga Nacional, Touriga Francesa, Tinta Barroca and Tinta Roriz
Producer: Quinta de la Rosa is run by the father and daughter team of Tim and Sophia Berqvist. The estate was given as a christening present to Sophia's grandmother in 1906! They make Port in the classic style - with all styles being foot-trodden in open vats (lagares)
Food Match: Great all round red for a cheeseboard. Fruit and intensity to match almost any style, except perhaps goat's
Old Bridge Rating: Excellent example of a 'Late Bottled Vintage' - in other words aged for five years in large wooden barrels, rather than two for Vintage. The time in wood softens the youthful power. LBV Port can be approached when released, but (at its best) retains more than a hint of Vintage Port, unlike the longer aged (Tawny) wines

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