WineSpectator Review:
What a nose. Ripe fruit, with chocolate, blackberries and raisins. Fullbodied and medium sweet, with velvety tannins. Finish goes on and on. Layered and wonderful. Best after 2014.
Parker Review:
The inky, purplecolored, opaque 2003 Quinta do Noval Vintage Port soars from the glass, revealing dates, black cherries, copious flowers, and plums. Fullbodied, broad, and lush, this topflight wine is harmonious and exhibits stupendous purity of fruit. Blueberries, cherries, and candied strawberries can be found in its nuanced, lengthy, plumlaced core as well as in its immensely long, dried berrytinged finish. Drink this beauty between 2020 and 2045.
Tanzer Review:
Saturated deep ruby. Sweet aromas of black cherry, cassis, licorice, molasses, minerals, toffee and violet. Dense, sweet and pliant, with outstanding precision and depth of flavor. Like the Silval, this boasts a seductively creamy texture. The explosive, mounting finish offers a fine dusting of ripe, suave tannins and great breadth. Deceptively easy to taste today owing to its finesse, but its hard to believe that it wont shut down in bottle in the near future. This wine features a particularly high percentage of touriga nacional.
