Dow Quinta Senhora Da Ribeira 2018

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A really fresh and refined young Port with fine, sweet tannins and blackberry, blueberry and mint undertones. Shows pretty length. Delicate style. Drink in 2023 and onwards. Score: 91 James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com Maturity: 2023+ 02 July 2020
The 2018 Quinta de Senhora da Ribeira, the Douro Superior quinta, is a blend of 45% Touriga Franca, 40% Touriga Nacional and the rest Alicante Bouschet and Sousão combined. It comes in with 106 grams per liter of residual sugar. Of the Symington group this issue, nothing is more intensely flavorful as this. It is certainly a step up on its Bomfim sibling this issue in concentration. Some in this set of Symington releases are equally perfumed. Some might be equally or more powerful. Nothing is more expressive except the Vesúvio, which is a bit of an outlier in this group. With violets up front and plums on the finish, it is delicious and sexy, until the hammer falls. There is plenty of power too. The next day, it shuts down. A few days later, it was drinking fairly well. Score: 92 - 94 Mark Squires, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2027-2065 30 June 2020
Blackish purple. Very concentrated indeed and almost so much so that the perfume is swallowed up by the density. Lovely sweet start and then the characteristic dryness on the end associated with Dow for which this is a major ingredient. Notably lower acidity than the Vesúvio across the river. Muscular and very structured. Still very youthful and almost inky. A violet perfume that is apparently the signature of this quinta can certainly be discerned. Great balance so that you could almost imagine drinking this quite soon with food. Score: 17 Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com Maturity: 2025-2042 01 June 2020
The 2018 Quinta Senhora da Ribeira represents just 8% of the Quinta's production. It is more compact, a bit more standoffish compared to some of the other single quinta 2018s that I tasted. It gradually warms up, revealing marine notes, seaweed and oyster shells tincturing the black fruit. The palate is super-smooth on the entry with plush, saturated tannins, quite spicy and peppery with an assertive, structured finish that is quintessentially Dow's. Superb. Score: 94 Neal Martin, Vinous.com Maturity: 2030-2060 01 June 2020

Tasting Notes

A really fresh and refined young Port with fine, sweet tannins and blackberry, blueberry and mint undertones. Shows pretty length. Delicate style. Drink in 2023 and onwards.

Score: 91

James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com Maturity: 2023+ 02 July 2020

The 2018 Quinta de Senhora da Ribeira, the Douro Superior quinta, is a blend of 45% Touriga Franca, 40% Touriga Nacional and the rest Alicante Bouschet and Sousão combined. It comes in with 106 grams per liter of residual sugar. Of the Symington group this issue, nothing is more intensely flavorful as this. It is certainly a step up on its Bomfim sibling this issue in concentration. Some in this set of Symington releases are equally perfumed. Some might be equally or more powerful. Nothing is more expressive except the Vesúvio, which is a bit of an outlier in this group. With violets up front and plums on the finish, it is delicious and sexy, until the hammer falls. There is plenty of power too. The next day, it shuts down. A few days later, it was drinking fairly well.

Score: 92 - 94

Mark Squires, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2027-2065 30 June 2020

Blackish purple. Very concentrated indeed and almost so much so that the perfume is swallowed up by the density. Lovely sweet start and then the characteristic dryness on the end associated with Dow for which this is a major ingredient. Notably lower acidity than the Vesúvio across the river. Muscular and very structured. Still very youthful and almost inky. A violet perfume that is apparently the signature of this quinta can certainly be discerned. Great balance so that you could almost imagine drinking this quite soon with food.

Score: 17

Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com Maturity: 2025-2042 01 June 2020

The 2018 Quinta Senhora da Ribeira represents just 8% of the Quinta's production. It is more compact, a bit more standoffish compared to some of the other single quinta 2018s that I tasted. It gradually warms up, revealing marine notes, seaweed and oyster shells tincturing the black fruit. The palate is super-smooth on the entry with plush, saturated tannins, quite spicy and peppery with an assertive, structured finish that is quintessentially Dow's. Superb.

Score: 94

Neal Martin, Vinous.com Maturity: 2030-2060 01 June 2020

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