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The 2011 Quinta de Vargellas Vinha Velha Vintage Port is a typical field blend aged in used French oak vats
the Gigondas Vieilles Vignes and the Gigondas Clos des Tourelles
soon giving way to very pretty scents of tilled soil
from a very small south-facing plot on slate soils at high altitude—some 820 meters above sea level—that was harvested around one month after the vines from Valtuille
8 ha holding that averages 40+ years of age)
Philippe Charlopin-Parizot, Clos Vougeot Brut Zero The 2011 Quinta de VargellasAll that can be discerned on what seems to be a very ripe nose are notes of reduction and wood. There is excellent volume to the very rich larger scaled flavors that brim with dry extract that imparts a suave texture as well as buffers the powerful, complex and impressively long finish where notes of rusticity and austerity slowly emerge. This too is very promising.