A beautifully structured, balanced wine, solidly based on firm, dry tannins while also showing elegant fruit. Complex, the acidity cutting through the firm texture, it’s a wine for long-term aging. ——R.V.(8/1/2011)—— 93

With its aromas of mint and new wood, this is already a wine in a New World idiom. The fruit is smooth, ripe, rich, polished, with round, smooth tannins. And yet, in all this sophistication, there’s a great edge of toughness, the rugged Douro coming through in spice and wild herbs. ——R.V.(11/1/2008)—— 93