2024 Quinta Nova de Nossa Senhora do Carmo, Reserva Blanc de Noirs White 6 x 0.75L 6 Bottles Douro Region WINEMAKER: António Bastos. AWARDS/RECOMMENDATIONS 91 Points, James Suckling (2022 Vintage) 91 Points, Revista Adega (2022 Vintage) 90 Points, Wine Enthusiast (2022 Vintage) 89 Points, Wine Spectator (2022 Vintage) 17.5 Points, Vinho Grandes Escolhas (2022 Vintage) 93 Points, Tom Cannavan’s (2021 Vintage) 90 Points, VertdeVin (2021 Vintage) 90 Points, Fugas (2021 Vintage) 17 Points, Revista Paixão Pelo Vinho (2021 Vintage) WINE VARIETIES: Tinta Roriz (100%). VINIFICATION We went to the highest slopes in the top of Quinta Nova de Nossa Senhora do Carmo to pick the grapes that mature more slowly and maintain greater freshness and linearity, and to create the Quinta Nova Blanc de Noir, a Reserva white wine made from red grapes. The beautiful Tinta Roriz grapes are the first to enter our winery. We harvest them at their perfect maturation point, so that we can extract all the components that make this wine unique and sublime. Vinified in stainless steel vats, including final fermentation in second- or third-use barrels and 27% in cement vats. 6 months in French oak barrels and cement. TASTING NOTES Delicate citrus aromas combined with white stone fruit support the complex and vibrant, enigmatic aroma. With remarkable firmness granted by the red grapes, this is a compact, fresh and tense wine, offering an endless finish with great precision, as a great wine should be. Classicism combined with modern winemaking, this Reserve white wine from Quinta Nova is a thrilling wine that awakens all our senses.  HISTORY With a history spanning over 200 years, Quinta Nova de Nossa Senhora do Carmo occupies over 120 ha of land, and has been listed since the first demarcation of the Douro wine region, in 1756, during the Pombaline era. The original wine cellar that dates back to 1764 and the 19th century manor house with a chapel (1795) are harmoniously integrated into one of the estate's hills. Owned by the Portuguese Royal Family until 1725, it became a “new estate” when two estates were merged. Several Portuguese families lived in the estate in the 18th and 19th centuries, during an important period in the agriculture of the Douro, and gave life to the vineyards and wine, fruit orchards, water mills built along the stream that runs through the estate and the old olive grove. Since 1999 the estate’s history has been intensely lived by the Amorim family. Now in its fourth generation, the Amorim family has been linked to the wine trade since 1870, through its first trading activity - producing cork stoppers for the Port Wine Cellars, in Vila Nova de Gaia. It is now one of the most prominent family groups in Portugal, and operates in several countries of the world, in different business sectors. The estate is now managed by Luisa Amorim, who has significantly augmented the family's wine business. With deep cultural awareness, the wines have ancestral roots in Portugal’s finest wine regions, including unique places such as the Quinta Nova de Nossa Senhora do Carmo in the Douro and the Quinta da Taboadella in the Dão region. PLEASE NOTE: This is a recurring auction. The seal number(s) you see on the photos might differ from the one(s) on your bottle(s).