Quinta do Noval, Nacional Port 2020
Standard - 75cl
Stock location: United Kingdom
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- Vintage2020
- ProducerQuinta do Noval
- CountryPortugal
- RegionPorto
- DesignationDOC
- Bottle SizeStandard - 75cl
- ABV19.5
- LWIN11079862020
- Avg. Critic Score4.7★★★★★★★★★★
Wine Critic Reviews
The 2020 Nacional was picked from 1 to 22 September, a relatively short harvest. It has a magnificent, exquisitely defined bouquet with a purity that bowls you over, perhaps even more intense than the 2019 Nacional tasted alongside. The palate is extraordinarily pure and intense, slightly viscous in texture, with layers of cassis, black cherries, blood orange and a dab of spice. Seamless on the finish. This is a worthy follow-up to the stellar 2019 Nacional. The two will fight between themselves for supremacy. Tasted at the Quinta do Noval tasting at Spring restaurant in London.
- Drinking Window: 2040 - 2110
- Reviewer Name: Neal Martin
- Review Date: November 2022
The 2020 Vintage Port Nacional is a field blend, mostly Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinto Cão, Sousão and Tinta Roriz, aged for 18 months in old wood. It was bottled April 2, 2022, with 113 grams of residual sugar and 19.2% alcohol. Like its regular Vintage sibling in this report, this is on the sweeter side for Noval, although still well in normal range. This is pretty fine, but also like its sibling, probably not a true classic, considering the grandeur of this brand. And like its sibling, it also is simply delicious and irresistible, easy to drink on the younger side, for Noval. This does have more of a backbone than the regular bottling, though, and more upside potential in the cellar. With air, it quickly showed off the great fruit, tinged with a bit of red berries and eucalyptus. This is still a pretty fine Nacional, although not a great one, and it should develop well.
- Drinking Window: 2027 - 2070
- Reviewer Name: Mark Squires
- Review Date: August 2022