Quinta do Noval, Vintage Port, 2000 SO061826 Pax Louis-Claude Desvignes achieved organic certification

Louis-Claude Desvignes achieved organic certification in 2023 and ages this cuvée entirely in concrete egg-shaped vats for pure fruit expression

This is their entry-level Bourgogne Chardonnay

old vines on Kimmeridgian limestone

The 2024 (pre-arrival

the appellation that gives the grape its most aromatic

Quinta do Noval, Vintage Port, 2000 SO061826 Pax Louis-Claude Desvignes achieved organic certificationVintage Port only gets declared in years the houses believe are worth it, and 2000 was one of them a millennium declaration that has aged into exactly what it promised. Quinta do Noval sits above Pinhao on some of the Douro's most dramatically terraced ground, and its Vintage bottling is built to be forgotten about for decades. This one has had twenty six years to soften and has arrived somewhere very good: dark, sweet and thick with dried fig,