Quinta de Roriz Vintage Port 2016 - 750 ml

This is packed with racy plum, açai and blueberry reduction notes, all seamlessly layered with licorice snap and plum cake flavors. Shows a lovely graphite hint through the finish. Best from 2030 through 2050.

This is really impressive with fantastic aromas of ripe fruit and hints of earth. Some moss. Full-bodied and very sweet, yet the power and tannins are all here. A juicy and sweet wine that impresses. Drink in 2022.

The 2016 Vintage Port is mostly Touriga Nacional from old vines, plus 22% Sousão, coming in with 114 grams of residual sugar. As with the other Symington properties this issue, this was bottled in May 2018 for release in October 2018. This shows the same good fruit as the Warre's, but in a much drier and sterner fashion, at least perceptibly and at least at the moment. It does have a fairly high sugar level on paper (normal-high, not over the top). As it sat and aired, it became more powerful, not less, showing plenty of intensity. Tight, tannic and a little astringent, this lacks expressive fruit as yet, but its laser-like precision will serve it in good stead. I loved that firm feel. It needs at least a decade to come around, though. It has a lot of upside potential, but it's linear and compact just now. Let's start here and see where we go when it opens up a bit more.