Duvalley Colheita 2016

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Each wine enclosures in itself uncountable stories.
Some of them are made public by its producers, some other remain secret and will circulate in intimate circles till it will be, eventually, forgotten.
Some are just purely personal to the anonymous mass who drinks them and are often not connected to its production, but to the moments we've lived while drinking it. It is a perfect symbiosis of life and experiences that enrich forever our wine experience.

For some years now, I had a café in Hamburg where Duvalley along with other wines from the FTP  (which was, in the meanwhile, bought by Tavfervinhos) were available.
One night, during a poetry reading, the police was called because of the noise Seeing that there was no reason for them to be there, they asked me kindly to come out and have a talk with them without disturbing the clients.
After a while they just asked me to get my ID and I went inside the café to get it. When I came out again,  one of the regular clients of the café was screaming at the police and showing them the cork of a bottle he had just bought, saying: Can't you read? F-T-P! Fuck the Police! More wine and less police!
After having promised the police officers that I would do my best to take him home, they have let him free without any charges.
We're still friends to this very day.

Like the personal story I've just shared, this wine is an apassionate one, revealing the common tastes one can expect from the Douro Valley. It has a complex aroma and intense black and plum fruit with aromatic notes, partially skipping a higher density due to its lack of wood contact. It has great freshness and definitely invites for intense experiences!

Points: 16,5 / 20



Country: Portugal
Region: Douro
Grapes: Touriga Nacional; Tinta-Roriz; Touriga Franca
14%
Website: https://www.tavfervinhos.com/product/15

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