Product Overview
Winery's Notes
"Smith Woodhouse is a specialist producer of premium quality Ports. The uniformity of this quality is underpinned by Smith Woodhouse’s own Madalena vineyard from where the wines are largely sourced. This small Quinta (vineyard property) has the highest “A” quality rating and is located in the Rio Torto district, acknowledged as one of the finest Port growing areas. Over the coming years, the recently acquired Quinta do Vale Coelho, further upriver in the Douro Superior, producing full and elegant wines, will gradually form an important component of Smith Woodhouse’s Ports.
The grapes are harvested in the fall and are fermented for a short period of time before the addition of 100% grape spirit alcohol. This step stops fermentation, preserves the wine’s natural grape sugars, and gives it its unique richness. Made from Ports carefully chosen by our winemaker for their concentrated rich fruit style. On arrival at our lodges (wine cellars) in Oporto from the Upper Douro vineyards, the finest wines deemed to possess the required characteristics are carefully selected, subsequently blended and then left to age and mellow in oak casks.
Dark and lively ruby color. On the nose intense red fruit aromas dominate, with some floral hints. On the palate fresh and robust fruit flavors, with an excellent long finish."
Varietal Composition: Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinta Barroca, Tinta Roriz, Tinto Cão
88 Points - Wine Advocate
"The NV Lodge Reserve Port is a November 2018 bottling with the typical major grapes in the region, aged up to three years in wood. It comes in with a bar-top cork and 110 grams per liter of residual sugar. Solid in the mid-palate, this shows good concentration for the category and some power on the finish as well. The expression of fruit is not quite as interesting, but it gives you the impression of a rather serious wine. This showed better with some air. Overall, it's a nice success." -MS, 1/31/19
