Quinta do Noval, Vintage Port, 2000 SO061826 Pax Louis-Claude Desvignes achieved organic certification

Louis-Claude Desvignes achieved organic certification in 2023 and ages this cuvée entirely in concrete egg-shaped vats for pure fruit expression

classified as a Premier Cru Classé in the 1855 Classification of Sauternes and Barsac

The 2024 (pre-arrival

leaving it with around 90 grams of sugar and a low 8% alcohol

From vines tucked into the limestone hills behind the coast

Quinta do Noval, Vintage Port, 2000 SO061826 Pax Louis-Claude Desvignes achieved organic certificationVintage Port only gets declared in years the houses believe are worth it, and 2000 was one of them a millennium declaration that has aged into exactly what it promised. Quinta do Noval sits above Pinhao on some of the Douro's most dramatically terraced ground, and its Vintage bottling is built to be forgotten about for decades. This one has had twenty six years to soften and has arrived somewhere very good: dark, sweet and thick with dried fig,