Quinta do Vesuvio Vintage Port 2015

A powerhouse of a wine with fresh, dark fruit aromas, rounded off with some lovely esteva (rockrose) and violets fragrance. Taught and muscular in the mouth with good grip from the schist tannins. Long and intense with superb structure.
 
2015 was Charles Symington’s 20th vintage at Quinta do Vesuvio, having joined the family company in 1995. In his first vintage in the Douro he accompanied his father Peter, gaining first-hand knowledge of the winemaking in traditional granite lagares, which is maintained to this day at the Quinta, one of the handful of properties in the Douro Valley to do so. During the 2015 vintage, the usual 50-strong roga (team of pickers and treaders) worked the lagares to produce this outstanding Vintage Port, which reflects Charles’s profound knowledge of this legendary Douro vineyard.