Quinta de Ventozelo Vintage 2016

Port wine is the ultimate creation of the Douro Valley and Vintage is its highest manifestation. Quinta de Ventozelo’s vintage port is its quintessential product, a supremely powerful and fruity reserve. It preserves all of the spirit and beauty of Ventozelo to ensure long bottle life. This is a wine that changes as the years pass, revealing new experiences and sensations with every stage.. The hot and rainy winter of 2015 was followed by a cold spring in 2016, also with heavy rain, which created high mildew pressures. Summer arrived hot and dry, with a more severe impact on exposed plots, but with excellent results on vineyards. After manual harvesting in September, the grapes were carefully inspected and destemmed. An intense maceration was then carried out in the first 48 hours to extract all the good components from the skins, followed by fermentation in stainless steel vats with temperature control. This was interrupted with the addition of brandy at the exact moment, followed by an aging process in careful conditions of minimal oxidation. 2 years in stainless steel and wood