MundoVino Portfolio Book

Manoella This wine is a blend of 60 percent Touriga Nacional, 25 percent Touriga Franca, 10 percent Tinta Roriz, and 5 percent Tinta Francisca from the Quinta da Manoella vineyard. The grapes are fermented for ten days at low temperatures and then foot-trodden in open granite lagares. The wine is aged for sixteen months in used French barriques, giving notes of spices along with raspberry and blackberry. On the palate, Manoella reveals round, velvety tannins, good concentration, and a long finish. 2013 : Editors’ Choice 92 WE | 2012 : 91 WE | 2011 : 90 WA | 2010 : 92 WE, Top 50 Portuguese Wines W&S Quinta da Manoella Vinhas Velhas This elegant red is sourced from a century-old field blend in Jorge Serôdio Borges’s ancestral family vineyard of Quinta de Manoella. It is composed largely of Touriga Nacional with a lesser percentage of Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz, and other traditional Douro varieties. Grapes were hand-selected and foot- trodden in stone lagares, and then aged in 90 percent new French oak barriques for twenty months. The resulting wine is deeply concentrated with spicy and floral aromas and flavors of blackberry and dark chocolate. Ripe, round and balanced with a notable acidity, it possesses firm tannins and a long finish. 2013 : 94 WE | 2012 : Cellar Selection 95 WE | 2011 : 95 WS | 2010 : 93 WE | 2009 : 93 WA, 93 WS

10-Year-Old Tawny Port Made to mark the ten-year anniversary of Wine & Soul, this rich, golden tawny seems aged beyond its years. It is made from a field blend of thirty grape varieties from estate vineyards ranging from forty to sixty years old. With a deep golden-amber color, this complex Port features fresh aromas of nuts, honey, and figs. On the palate, it is rich with mellow fruit flavors with a long finish. NV : 92 WS, 91 WE

Pintas Vintage Port This Vintage Port is made from a field blend of more than thirty indigenous grape varieties sourced from the estate’s eighty-year-old Pintas vineyard. All grapes were carefully selected and foot-trodden in lagares for five days until neutral brandy was added to stop the fermentation. The wine was then aged in an old Port tonel for nineteen months before bottling. Featuring flavors of dark plum and mint chocolate, this wine’s full and ripe tannins show the aging capacity of this young Port. 2011 : 96 WE | 2009 : 95 WS 5G This Tawny Port is the pinnacle of more than one hundred years of unwavering passion and patience. It is a creation so sacred that Five Generations of the Serôdio Borges family have guarded it for a century’s time. A celestial blend of vintage tawnys dating from 1870 to 1900, with a limited production of just 1,200 bottles released to the public, 5G retains the same magnetism that flows through the veins of its keepers. Alluring notes of raw honey, roasted almond, and grilled fig intermingle with elegant viscosity and an extraordinary freshness deepened only by its ample maturity. NV : 95 WA

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