Tasted at the New Douro Tasting, Tate Modern, London, 26 October 2010.
A strange, metalic, tanky nose. Raspberry flavours with lots of acidity and a sweet sugary finish.
This is the second time I have tasted this port (and the only vintage of Quinta Senhora da Ribeira that I have tasted) and I just can't get along with it. Others at the tasting took away a much better impression than I did and I am left feeling quite confused. Is it possible that there is a place in the Douro that makes port that I don't enjoy? - I'm willing to give it another chance as the prospect of that being true is too horrible to imagine.
2008 Dow Senhora da Ribeira
2008 Quinta Senhora da Ribeira
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
Ernest H. Cockburn
Ernest H. Cockburn