Quinta do Vale Meão Vintage Port 2018 Size::6 Bottle Case Telmo’s Verdejo vines are plagued

Telmo’s Verdejo vines are plagued by wild boars (see the back label) coming out of the adjacent forest to feast at night on the near-ripe tangy green-gold fruit

and lively with an acidic linearity that lingers and indicates that it will develop with further aging

Vickery wines are made in collaboration with talented winemaker and family friend Philip Lehmann

More time in wood equals more complex wood-and-balsam volatile secondary beauty

and goat cheese

Quinta do Vale Meão Vintage Port 2018 Size::6 Bottle Case Telmo’s Verdejo vines are plaguedThe grapes pass through a quality control before being crushed, in order to avoid mainly raisins, and in some varieties possible Botrytis problems. After being crushed, the grapes are cooled down and periodically trodden by foot in granite "lagares" until the sugar contents of the must reaches the required level. This process lasts in average for three days. The must is then racked to the storage vats and wine brandy is added to stop fermentation.