NV Quinta do Baroa Ultima Reserva
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Alex Bridgeman
- Fonseca 1966
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NV Quinta do Baroa Ultima Reserva
Quinta do Barão Carcavelos Última Reserva from Raúl Ferreira. Deep red and mature appearance. A wonderful savoury nose, supplemented by excellent juniper fruit. Ripe fruit, but dry with rose hip and a wonderful honeyed rose perfume. Lovely complexity. Honeyed rose aftertaste and finish. Beautiful delicate Turkish Delight finish. 88/100. Drunk 18-Aug-2024 with Will Wiley and Miguel Souza Uva. 88/100. Drunk 18-Aug-24.
Top Ports in 2023: Taylor 1896 Colheita, b. 2021. A perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
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MigSU
- Warre’s Otima 20 year old Tawny
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Re: NV Quinta do Baroa Ultima Reserva
Just some further information about this very interesting wine that I managed to gather...
When Quinta do Barão stopped producing Carcavelos wine, at the end of the 80s, there was still a large reserve of old wines stored in casks in the Quinta's cellar. In 1994, Raul Mattos Ferreira Junior de Riba D’Ave (2nd Count of Riba D’Ave), owner of the farm, decided to make a final bottling bringing together all the best wines in stock. Two batches were made, one half dry and the other dry.
The wines that made up the final batches of Quinta do Barão “Última Reserva” ('Last Reserve') wines have varying ages, the oldest being from the beginning of the 20th century and the youngest from the late 1980s. The two wines were bottled in 1994 and when the estate was sold at the end of the 90s, passed from the farm's cellars to the descendants of the Count of Riba D'Ave. Only a very small part remained at Quinta do Barão, for future estate, at the request of the then buyer.
I think the one we had was the half dry. It was wonderful, although I think it being drunk after three Ports made its dryness feel slightly awkward. But alas neither you nor Will nor I knew what was inside that bottle, as the dryness is stated nowhere on the label.
When Quinta do Barão stopped producing Carcavelos wine, at the end of the 80s, there was still a large reserve of old wines stored in casks in the Quinta's cellar. In 1994, Raul Mattos Ferreira Junior de Riba D’Ave (2nd Count of Riba D’Ave), owner of the farm, decided to make a final bottling bringing together all the best wines in stock. Two batches were made, one half dry and the other dry.
The wines that made up the final batches of Quinta do Barão “Última Reserva” ('Last Reserve') wines have varying ages, the oldest being from the beginning of the 20th century and the youngest from the late 1980s. The two wines were bottled in 1994 and when the estate was sold at the end of the 90s, passed from the farm's cellars to the descendants of the Count of Riba D'Ave. Only a very small part remained at Quinta do Barão, for future estate, at the request of the then buyer.
I think the one we had was the half dry. It was wonderful, although I think it being drunk after three Ports made its dryness feel slightly awkward. But alas neither you nor Will nor I knew what was inside that bottle, as the dryness is stated nowhere on the label.
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winesecretary
- Taylor Quinta de Vargellas 1987
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Re: NV Quinta do Baroa Ultima Reserva
Both Bucelas and Carcavelos were widely acclaimed in the UK in the C18th and C19th. There are silver decanter labels for both in a delicious variety of spellings.
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MigSU
- Warre’s Otima 20 year old Tawny
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Re: NV Quinta do Baroa Ultima Reserva
You made me Google those. They're fantastic!winesecretary wrote: ↑20:18 Thu 22 Aug 2024 Both Bucelas and Carcavelos were widely acclaimed in the UK in the C18th and C19th. There are silver decanter labels for both in a delicious variety of spellings.
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winesecretary
- Taylor Quinta de Vargellas 1987
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Re: NV Quinta do Baroa Ultima Reserva
Yes they are. Full disclosure- I am the immediate past president of the ‘wine label circle’ - the international society for the collectors of such things. Silver wine labels have quite significant value as a record of contemporaneous tastes. If anyone ever says to you something sweeping like ‘ of course white port is a modern marketing phenomenon’ you can say ‘well actually the English were importing quite a lot two hundred years ago’ because there were decanter labels that say so - and we know the dates because they were hallmarked.