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Croft Quinta Da Roeda 2018

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Tasting Notes

Sleek in feel, with a mix of raspberry and plum reduction, melted black licorice and fruitcake notes that stretch out over a graphite edge on the finish. Has good energy from start to finish. Best from 2030 through 2045.

Score: 93

James Molesworth, Wine Spectator Maturity: 2030-2045 28 February 2021

The 2018 Quinta da Roeda Vintage Port has an intense nose of black fruit mixed with raisin, fig, cloves and a touch of boot polish. The palate is well balanced with quite a strict, terse opening, very spicy with black pepper, cloves (again) and bay leaf. Broody at first but opening with time to reveal a very attractive and complex, structured finish with hints of tobacco and smoke. This is a lovely nascent Quinta da Roeda.

Score: 93

Neal Martin, Vinous.com Maturity: 2032-2065 01 February 2021

From Croft’s flagship estate just upstream from Pinhão: fragrant, slightly herbal -hedgerow character with a hint of chocolate on the nose; lovely round, well- defined plum and cherry fruit flavours, fresh, firm and accessible, very nicely balanced, backed by firm tannins and a long lithe finish. Mid-weight, middle distance wine for drinking in ten years or so

Score: 17

Richard Mayson, RichardMayson.com 01 February 2021

The 2018 Vintage Port Quinta da Roeda is a field blend aged for approximately 18 months in very large used wooden vats. It comes in with 104 grams of residual sugar. Ripe and expressive, this delicious single-quinta Porto also has fine concentration and some pop on the finish. Indeed, as this sits and airs out, it proves it has a real backbone. Two days later, it was pretty tight. This is more about fruit than structure, though, and this sexy, nuanced and succulent Port is going to be hard to resist as it ages. Likely to be accessible on the younger side, it should still hold very well. I need to see a bit more to be fully convinced, but right now this seems like the steal and sleeper of the Fladgate Partnership trio this issue (the Fonseca and Taylor's being the others). For the moment—and young Ports do change notably as they age—this would be my favorite of the trio. The price references a full bottle, although this was tasted from a half bottle.

Score: 94

Mark Squires, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2027-2060 17 December 2020