GENERAL INFORMATION
Estate / Producer / Brand: Quinta do Caêdo, Sogrape
Region: Douro, Portugal
Appellation: Douro
Type: Dry red wine, non-sparkling, non fortified
Vintage: 2016
Date of Tasting: April 2023
Type of viticulture: Sustainable and Reasoned
Grapes used: 100% grapes from 2016
Vintage Blend: 100% of grapes from 2016
Winemaking details: Only old vines (from a plot called “Vinha Velha”, pre-phylloxera centenary vines), hand-harvested
Aging: 30 months in oak barrels
Sugar level: low (1.3g per liter of residual sugar)
Sulphites: contains sulphites
APPEARANCE
- Colour = Ruby
- Intensity = Deep
NOSE
- Intensity = Pronounced
- Aromas Characteristics = Primary + Secondary + Tertiary
- Aromas = Cherry, tobacco, cloves, black pepper, balsamic notes, cedar, liquorice
PALATE
- Sweetness = Dry
- Acidity = Medium+
- Tannins = High (firm tannins)
- Alcohol = High (14%)
- Body = Full
- Flavour Intensity = Pronounced
- Flavour Characteristics = Primary + Secondary + Tertiary
- Flavour details = Cherry, tobacco, cloves, black pepper, balsamic notes, cedar, liquorice, truffle, menthol, mineral notes
- Other =
- Finish = Long
GENERAL ASSESSMENT (1)
- Overall Quality = Outstanding
- Bottle Aging =
- Can be kept at around 10°C for up to 25-30 years
- Will gain complexity from aging
- Retail Price = 300 euros for a 75cl individual bottle (France retail price, incl. taxes)
- Value for Money = good
- Comparison with same price competition = good
- Suitability for Diabetics = suitable (1.3g per liter of residual sugar)
- Service Temperature = around 16°C
- Suggested Food & Wine Pairing = red meat, beef, Carne Mirandesa, Carne Barrosã Viana do Castelo District, Carnalentejana, Carne dos Açores, Black Angus, Buffalo meat, Cornish pasties
- Comments = Complex and intense aromas dominated by a bouquet of red fruits, with hints of truffle and mineral notes. It has excellent, well-defined mouthfeel and firm, powerful but high-quality tannins. The finish is extremely long, elegant and deep with notes of red fruits, liquorice, tobacco and a hint of menthol. This wine just needs to be aged for at least one (preferably two) decades in the right conditions to be able to express its full potential.
- Final Grade = A+
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(1)GENERAL ASSESSMENT GUIDE
Please note that although all efforts have been made to be as objective as possible, the general assessment inherently involves a degree of subjectivity based on a personal evaluation of the wine.
- Overall Quality scale
- Poor < Acceptable < Good < Very Good < Outstanding
- Bottle Aging
- Will it beneficiate from additional aging?
- Retail Price
- Usually the retail price for one bottle including taxes
- Value for Money
- Quality offered compared to the price paid
- Comparison with same price competition
- where does it stand compared to average competition of the same price range
- Suitability for Diabetics
- Evaluation of the level of final sugar for early stages diabetics
- Comments
- Any additional elements worth noting
- Final Grade Scale
- A++ = Out of the Charts Wine (Stellar, Hors Classe, Fuori Classe)
- A+ = Outstanding Wine
- A = Great Wine
- A- = Very Very Good
- B+ = Very Good
- B = Good
- B- = Noteworthy
- C+ = Acceptable
- C = Poor
- F = The worst grade of this scale
