- Colour
- Port_Sweet
- Producer
- Smith-Woodhouse
- Region
- Port
- Grape
- Touriga Nacional / Tinta Roriz / Tinta Barroca
- Drinking
- 2030 - 2050
- Case size
- 6x75cl
- Available Now
2016 SMITH WOODHOUSE - 6x75cl
- Colour
- Port Sweet
- Producer
- Smith-Woodhouse
- Region
- Port
- Grape
- Touriga Nacional / Tinta Roriz / Tinta Barroca
- Drinking
- 2030 - 2050
- Case size
- 6x75cl
- Available Now
- Pricing
- Retail
- In Bond
- Pricing Info
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Tasting Notes
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Goedhuis, May 2018,
Score: 91-93Hints of violets and fresh summer berries. This is a powerfully intense port, with a natural central core of tannic depth. A full and concentrated wine, which expresses real substance and depth. A wine for ageing.
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Neal Martin, June 2018,
Score: 91The 2016 Smith Woodhouse Vintage Port represents the best production from the Quinta da Madalena vineyard, where picking did not begin until 28 September. It perhaps just lacks the same intensity and complexity of its peers with black truffle and smoke aromas infusing the black fruit. The palate is well balanced with a spicy, stem ginger tinged opening that shows much more promise than the nose. I admire the tension here, a nimble and agile Vintage Port that gathers weight towards the finish. Fine, but perhaps a more short-term proposition than its peers.
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James Suckling, May 2018,
Score: 96This is extremely floral with dark fruit and plum character. Full-bodied, very tight and focused. It's a complete young vintage Port that is great from start to finish. Rio Torto fruit makes this great! Better in 2022.
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Matthew Jukes, May 2018,
Score: 17.5Chunky, juicy and a touch more rustic and spicy than others, this is good fun and it shows the strides forward at this jolly House. Trying to keep up with the big names, and almost making it this is a great effort from this workhorse estate.
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Producer
Smith-Woodhouse

Region
Port
Port is made in the Cima Corgo, Baixo Corgo and Douro Superior districts of the Douro Valley in the north of Portugal. The summers are hot and dry and the climate becomes more continental as you move further east towards the upper Douro Valley. Here temperatures often exceed 40 degrees. The Douro Valley has steep hillsides with terraces, which is not only aesthetically pleasing but is also extremely useful for making quality wine. The schist soils aid in drainage and have become very important to port production, so much so that much of the Douro table wines have been relegated to granite soils. The six main grape varieties used for port production are Touriga Nacional, Tinta Cão, Tinta Roriz (Tempranillo), Tinta Barroca, Touriga Francesa and Tinta Amarela. There are another 42 grape varieties that are permitted but these six are considered to be the noblest ones, each adding something different to the blend. After the harvest the grapes are trodden, often by foot but more often by machines, in giant lagars (troughs). Port is a fortified wine so during fermentation ‘brandy' (not actually brandy but a grape-distilled spirit) is added to increase thealcoholic strength to around 17-19 % abv. This leaves a sweet, red fortified wine with lots of vibrant fruit. There are many different types of Port from the Basic Ruby Ports, through to Tawny Ports and LBVs, to probably the most famous of all Vintage Port that can take 20 years to reach its peak. When mature, Vintage Port is a unique tasting experience with warm, concentrated spicy-fruit flavours and a superb length that just goes on and on.