Capela Vintage Port

• Varieties: 31% Touriga Nacional, 23% Old Vines (Field Blend), 19% Touriga Franca, 15% Sousao, 12% Alicante Bouschet
• Type: Port
• Region: Douro, Portugal
• Alcohol Level: 20.0%

Wine Description:

Capela do Vesúvio is a micro-terroir Vintage Port whose extraordinary complexity and powerful structure is created by three small plots of vineyard at the property - the 100-year-old mixed vines in the Vinha da Capela, the shaded vines in the Escola vineyard, and the half-a-century old plantings of Touriga Franca in the Vale da Teja. This is the very pinnacle of what the estate produces.

Tasting Note:

Aromas of schist dust with notes of lavender and rockrose (Cistus), which are especially evocative of Vesúvio’s main valley, site of one of Capela’s contributing vineyards, the ‘Escola’. Compact and voluminous with grainy tannins carrying peppery spice and underwriting the powerful structure that is simultaneously lean and taut — a Capela hallmark. Intense and fresh on the palate, laced with black fruit and hints of dark chocolate, the long aftertaste reveals tea and tobacco.