Quinta do Vesuvio 2018

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Tasting Notes

This is a big, ripe young vintage Port with dried fruit, such as figs and prunes, treacle tart and chocolate. Full-bodied and very sweet with lots of round tannins and a long, flavorful finish. This needs five or six years to soften. Just 3% of the Vesuvio production. Try after 2025 and onwards.

Score: 96

James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com Maturity: 2025+ 07 July 2020

The 2018 Vintage Port is a blend of 54% Touriga Nacional and 40% Touriga Franca and Alicante Bouschet combined, with miscellaneous others filling out the blend. It comes in with 112 grams of residual sugar. This is one of the two Ports being released en primeur now by the Symingtons in this issue. If you are judging the group on concentration and power, this is easily the winner, the one with the biggest upside. There are some other points to make, though. You may like the style of some others more.

Score: 92 - 94

Mark Squires, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2028-2065 30 June 2020

Deep, blackish purple colour. Prunes plus freshness (Sousão?) on the nose. Very sweet start and yet with real life and spine to it. Tight and focused with real lift. Very much more than just ripe. Great concentration. Youthful with a real framework.

Score: 17

Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com Maturity: 2026-2040 01 June 2020

The 2018 Quinta do Vesuvio has a plush bouquet of black fruit laced with clove, nougat, boysenberry jam and white pepper. I would have liked a little more precision here. The palate is medium-bodied with impressive spicy attack on the entry - cracked black pepper and bitter orange, touches of liquorice and mint towards the well structured finish. Moderate length. A quality Vesuvio that deserves several years in bottle.

Score: 93

Neal Martin, Vinous.com Maturity: 2030-2065 01 June 2020