Wine & Soul Pintas Vintage Port 2019 Portugal Douro Portwein. Jorge Borges und Sandra Tavares zaubern hier die Weine in die Flasche. Die Rebstöcke sind über 90 Jahre alt. Obwohl das Weingut noch recht jung ist, zählt es heute schon zur absoluten Spitze! Jorge, der frühere Önologe von Dirk Niepoort, gilt als Ausnahmetalent in der Weinszene. Seine Frau Sandra Tavares de Silva war außerdem Önologin bei Quinta vale Donna Maria, ebenfalls einer der besten Adressen Portugals. Von diesen Ports wird man in Zukunft noch viel hören und lesen!!! Extrem extrahiert, super dicht, trotzdem elegant, schwarz in der Farbe und mit entsprechender Luftzufuhr außergewöhnlich vielschichtig!!! Ein verborgener Schatz für die Zukunft!!! Vorraussichtliche Trinkreife: 2025 - 2080

Parker: 97+/100. The 2019 Pintas Vintage Port is a field blend from more than 40 different grapes from very old vines (around 90 years). It comes in with 108 grams of residual sugar and was bottled in May 2021 after 19 months in old chestnut casks. Wine & Soul has gradually made itself into a top Port producer, easily competing with the old and big names. This is another great example, a fine companion to some brilliant ones in the last few vintages. Which is the best? This has a pretty good chance of claiming that prize, but let's come back around 2035 for a better view. In the meanwhile, it looks like one of the finest 2019s I have seen. Intensely powerful, this is a very different style, happily, than the producer's table wines. With table wines, they avoid rusticity and make polished wines. That's not to say this is too astringent, but this Port lets it all hang out, with some old-school power and intensity. The beautiful fruit is pretty fine too, and it smells great. To be sure, it is a little subdued by the pure power today. A few days later, the lovely fruit asserts itself more. A few more days (six days from the first pour), it had hardly budged again. If someone told me that it had just been opened an hour earlier, that would've been believable. It then adds fine mid-palate finesse, never seeming ponderous but always seeming deep. This is going to need at least a decade of cellaring. That just gets you to approachability, as I don't think it will be close to ready at that point. This is all about potential, but it is so brilliant on so many levels that it makes me want to lean up on it right now. To be sure, there's a lot left to prove.

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Allergene: Sulfite - Alkoholgehalt: 21 % - Abfüller: Wine & Soul Lda, Av.Júlio de Freitas l Vale de Mendiz, 5085-101 Pinhão, Portugal - Einführer: AixVinum, Niklas Kudlek, Vaalser Str. 90 A, 52074 Aachen