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Princeton

 

Red-fortified

Dow's Vintage Port 1977Price: $245.00    Case Price: $220.50

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Color:
Red
Body/Type:
Fortified
Style:
Traditional
Size:
Bottle, 750 ml
Winery:
Dow's
Grapes:
Touriga Franca and Touriga Nacional
Serve At:
46°-54° F
Region:
Portugal > Douro

Dow’s Vintage Ports are only produced in years of exceptional quality and represent only a very small part of the total company’s production in that year. On average only two or three times every ten years are the weather conditions sufficiently good to allow for the making of Dow’s Vintage Port. Dow's Vintage Ports are drawn from the companies' finest vineyards; Quinta do Bomfim and Quinta de Senhora da Ribeira. Each property contributes to the Dow’s unique and distinctive style.
Over the centuries, the Dow winemakers have evolved a style that suits the house’s key vineyards; fermentations are a little longer, resulting in a drier Port Wine that has become the hallmark of Dow’s. Abundant fruit flavours with hints of ripe blackberries, give elegance and poise to Dow’s. The nose is deep and powerful with strong overtones of violets when young, these mature into fine cinnamon and rose-tea aromas with age. The very high percentage of Touriga Franca and Touriga Nacional planted on the vineyards result in the powerful structure and aging potential of Dow’s Vintage Ports. 1977 is considered one of the very finest Vintages of the 2nd half of the 20th Century. Vivid ruby/garnet colour, with a soft bouquet of ripe concentrated fruit, plums, black cherry and hints of chocolate. A long and elegantly dry finish.

Long summers, brutally hot temperatures, and steep hillsides that range from thirty five to seventy degrees of inclination are what awaits the brave souls who decided to grow grapes and craft wine in this part of the world. As Karen McNeil summarizes "that vineyards are planted in the Douro is a testament to human will, for this is one of the most unmerciful environments in which grapes manage to grow." Many winemakers will often comment that the more the grape vines have to struggle, the better character the wine will display. Wines from the Douro have an awful lot of character!

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