Quinta do Noval Tawny Port Colheita 1997 Size::6 Bottle Case The wine is juicy

The wine is juicy

A fruit driven Shiraz displaying sweet berry fruits balanced by fine tannins and subtle oak complexity providing a classically elegant finish

together with vegetal notes of nettle and sage

with the Chateau Meyney 2012 already showing signs of great success

Again the fruit is drawn from a mosaic of different vineyards spanning Monterrei's myriad of soil types and sub-zones

Quinta do Noval Tawny Port Colheita 1997 Size::6 Bottle Case The wine is juicyThe Portuguese word colheita means harvest. A Colheita Port must be from a single year and aged for a minimum of seven years in wood before bottling. In practice many are aged for considerably longer (as is the case at Noval) and so Colheita Ports can vary greatly in style. Novals Colheita is only made in exceptional years, when certain lots of wine with great aging potential are set aside to be aged in cascos (old casks with a capacity of 640