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Jacob,

Here you recently posted a tasting note on a Port from a producer I've not encountered. Assuming they are still going and in the same place as they were when you visited them in 2014, where is the shop and / or Quinta?

Thanks,

Alex

They are on the road to Provensende from Pinhão. I really don’t know very much about them. We were driving to Provensende and I saw I sign advertising wine tasting so we followed it. There was a tiny shop manned by a nice lady who let us try their ruby, white and tawny. It was clearly not a commercial set-up since none of the bottles had labels! All three of the Ports were slightly undersold by their categorisation. The tawny was apparently 25 years old; the ruby was nine; and the white clearly has some age to it too. We bought a bottle of the white and the tawny, I think.

It looks like they are still going and running a B&B at the quinta.

I suppose the Ports are essentially ones made for family consumption which I why I thought they were so interesting: someone like me rarely gets to taste this sort of thing. I suppose I should have asked what they do with their benefício allowance: I wonder if they sell their benefício grapes / wine to another producer in the traditional manner and just hold back a bit outside it for family use?