Quinta do Noval Porto Vintage Nacional 2001 Medoza It is an utterly exceptional

It is an utterly exceptional wine and a tribute to not only a great vineyard

This is easily the freshest wine to this point with its splendidly complex aromas of mostly red currant

This moderately powerful effort is shaped by dense but fine tannins and is a wine that should amply repay extended cellaring

There are sweet cherry aromas

The wines from the extremely hot drought year

Quinta do Noval Porto Vintage Nacional 2001 Medoza It is an utterly exceptionalThe 2001 Vintage Port Nacional is a typical blend, mostly Touriga Franca, Touriga Nacional, Tinta Co, Souso and Tinta Roriz. Aged for 20 months in old barrels in Douro, it comes in with 19. 3% alcohol and 76. 8 grams per liter of residual sugar. This is a late release, declared in 2003 but just now about to hit the market. Christian Seely said: "[T]he 2001 was extremely backward and quite closed up, dense and very tannic. Since we had just declared