Description

Quinta de Vargellas is pre-eminent among the wine estates of the Douro. Located in the wild and hilly eastern reaches of the Douro valley, it has been prized as a source of the finest Port wines since the 1820s. Today it ranks among the great vineyards of the world.

​Deep purple black with a narrow red rim and magenta highlights.  The keynotes here are elegance and finesse. The nose is polished and precise, displaying very pure, bright fruit with predominant notes of raspberry and cherry and an attractive fresh grapiness.  Surrounding this core of fine fruit are subtle botanical notes of bracken and underwood and scents of wild herbs and flowers.  The palate is compact and racy, with wiry linear tannins galvanised by a powerful charge of acidity.  The fine, ‘singing’ fruit which is the signature of the 2019 vintage re-emerges on the palate and extends into the long finish.  As always with Vargellas, it is the distinctive fruit quality which stands out, combining focus and definition with a seductive complexity.