Porto Ferreira Vintage 2018

Deep color, almost opaque, with intense and complex aromas with floral and balsamic notes, combined with resin, cedar, tobacco box, black fruits, spices, pepper, and a slightly stony touch. On the palate it has excellent body, very well integrated acidity, powerful tannins and notes of spices with a long, lively finish of great harmony.

Cold and dry winter. Extremely rainy spring, which allowed the replenishment of water reserves in the soil but affected flowering and contributed to an abnormal incidence of vine diseases, resulting in considerably lower yields. Despite the hot and dry summer, the humidity levels in the soils provided a long and balanced end to maturation, allowing the production of wines of excellent quality.

The wines are transported to the Ferreira traditional cellars in Vila Nova de Gaia in the spring following harvest. Stored in used oak vats in the ideal conditions of these bicentennial ageing lodges, the wines undergo a short maturation period under the constant care of the wine team who, following analysis, creates a final blend of extraordinary quality that is bottled in the 2nd year after harvest and laid down for a very long cellaring.