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Passadouro Touriga Nacional This wine is 100 percent Touriga Nacional sourced from the thirty-year-old, schistose Quinta do Sibio vineyard. After a rigorous selection, the grapes ferment in a traditional granite lagar and are then aged seventeen months in 50 percent new and 50 percent one-year-old French oak barrels. This wine displays elegant notes of black fruits and violets, and well-integrated nuances of oak. On the palate, this Touriga Nacional shows its intense and fresh flavors with perfect balance. 2013 : 91 WA | 2012 : 96 D | 2011 : 92 WA Passadouro Touriga Franca A pure expression of Touriga Franca from 30 year old vines planted at an altitude of 150 meters at Quinta do Sibio. After a rigorous selection, the foot trodden grapes ferment in a traditional granite lagars with temperature control for 10 days. Aged for 18 months in 30 percent new and 70 percent used French oak barrels. This wine is light in color, it is elegant on the nose with balsamic and white peppery notes combined with aromas of red fruit. On the palate, soft tannins balanced with pleasant acidity evoke refreshing sensations in the mouth. The finish is long with mineral notes. 3,000 bottles produced in only exceptional years. Passadouro Reserva Remarkably, seventy-year-old vines produce the more than thirty indigenous grape varieties that make up this field blend wine. Aged for eighteen months in French oak barrels, this wine is deep ruby red in color with concentrated aromas of black cherry, plum, and sweet spice on the nose and palate. Rich and impressive, it has well-integrated tannins, good acidity, and a long finish. 2013 : 94 WE | 2012 : 94 WE | 2011 : 93 WA | 2010 : 92 WS, 92 WA | 2009 : 93 WS | 2008 : 93 WE | 2004 : 93 WA

Passadouro Ruby Reserva Porto This wine has a longer aging time than typical for Ruby Ports—about five years—during which time it becomes rich and aromatic with a deep ruby color. It exhibits a youthful freshness and beautiful fruit, and is an everyday Port suitable for enjoying anytime.

Passadouro Vintage Porto Quinta do Passadouro Vintage Port is meticulously crafted from a field blend of indigenous Portuguese varietals grown in the estate’s vineyards. The grapes sourced from the seventy-year-old vines are foot- trodden in traditional granite lagars and aged in native Portuguese oak for nineteen months before bottling. A floral style, the wine displays an intense bouquet of rose petal, black cherry and cassis while the palate exhibits a medium body with solid structure and concentrated licorice and crushed blackberry flavors. It is a wine meant to age for twenty to fifty years in declared vintages. 2011 : 95 WE | 2009 : 93 WS, 93 WE

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WINES OF PORTUGAL