Cape Heritage, Sweets & Fortifieds
Timed Online Auction, 5 - 17 June 2025
Fortifieds
About the SessionIt's rare to witness a collection of vintage ports like what's on offer in the 2025 Strauss winter catalogue. With the cold evenings approaching, these complex beauties are the perfect companions to open before dinner to warm the atmosphere.
About this Item
Grapes are sourced from the Rio Torto Valley whose maturation pattern is typically later than most of the Douro. In 2000, picking at Quinta da Madalena only started on 2 October. Yields were extremely low, but the quality of the fruit was outstanding, resulting in powerful wines with complex layers of ripe fruit that promised well for the future.
Provenance
Wine Cellar Private Client
Critics Ratings
'Now we are talking. Wow. Aromas of licorice, flowers and crushed blackberries. Full-bodied and medium sweet, with lovely smooth, fine tannins and a long, sweet fruit finish. Greatest young Vintage Port of Smith Woodhouse I have ever tasted.' - Wine Spectator, 95/100 (May 2003)
'Dark blackish purple. Rich, soft, black cherries. Very very sweet and powerful and alcoholic, so much so that it is quite difficult to even discern the tannins but they are there. Is this just a bit too brutal and raw? It is extremely young but it does have all the ingredients there.' Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com, 18/20 (October 2004)
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