Offley Porto Late Bottled Vintage

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Grower: Offley
Grape Variety: Touriga Nacional / Touriga Franca / Tinta Roriz / Tinta Amarela
Style: Smoky and Ripe
Country: Portugal
Appellation: Douro
Vintage: 2016/17
Closure: CORK
Alcohol: 20.5% ABV
Bottle Size: 75cl

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Offley Porto Late Bottled Vintage has a very intense colour and an intense bouquet with a fine complexity, with a prevalence of balmy aromas of oak-ageing and tobacco, as well as ripe red fruit and some pepper and clove. The palate shows a very balanced body and structure, a well-integrated acidity, good evidence of ripe red fruit and a very long and exuberant finish.

Offley’s history goes back to 1737, the year in which the Englishman William Offley founded the company to which he gave his own name. It is however from the 19th century onwards, the company acquired a new dynamism. In 1831, Joseph James Forrester, a nephew of the founder, joined the company. An academic and an artist, James Forrester was the first person to map the River Douro and its region, as well as to draw maps that became works of reference. He also undertook numerous wine growing studies and left important graphical works – paintings, drawings and sketches – in which he shows all his passion for the Douro. James Forrester’s contribution to the development of the region where Port Wine is made, as well as to its trade, earned him the title of Baron given to him by the King of Portugal. Throughout the years the company invested in the production and marketing of fortified wines, in the planting of new vineyards and in the re-planting of existing ones (as happened at Quinta da Boavista), built and maintained unique ageing cellars at Vila Nova de Gaia.

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