Product Description
Douro, Portugal
Vintage: Non-Vintage
The Vineyard
Ramos Pinto was founded in 1880 and, for several decades, its history has been marked by a balance
between innovation and respect for tradition. In addition to producing wines of exceptional quality, the House is known for its knowledge of terroir and for its pioneering viticulture. Through its strict production policy, the selection of the best Douro grape varieties and the systematic technical and technological research, the House is positioned as the reference for the production of superior quality wines in Portugal.
Ramos Pinto has four estates in the Douro Valley: Quinta do Bom Retiro and Quinta da Urtiga, located in
Cima Corgo, as well as Quinta dos Bons Ares and Quinta de Ervamoira, in the Douro Superior. These four
Quintas cover an area of 890 acres. The grapes of Quinta de Ervamoira give structure, intensity of fruit and body to the vintage ports. However, it is in Quinta do Born Retiro and Quinta da Urtiga that these wines acquire complexity and elegance.
Committed to improving its bond with nature and the environment, Ramos Pinto is working towards this
achievement by implementing organic farming and increasing biodiversity in the vineyard.
The Cellar
The 30-Year Tawny is Ramos Pinto’s most distinguished port, made from estate vineyards in the best
production zones of the Delimited Douro Region. It is a blend of wines that have aged in oak for an average of three decades in the winery’s cellars in Vila Nova de Gaia. Treaded by foot and fermented in traditional
granite lagares.
Wine Alcohol: 20%
Titratable Acidity: 4.6 g/l
pH: 3.69
Residual Sugar: 119.9 g/l
Aging: Aged in oak for 30 years and kept in-bottle for several months before release to market
Aging Potential
Awards
Wine & Spirits – 93 POINTS, YEAR’S BEST TAWNY PORTS
December 2019, Joshua Greene
“Fully mature, luscious and fat, this has the dark bitterness of tobacco and espresso to balance its richness. Ignacio Monclus of Brooklyn’s Camperdown Elm suggested it would take the place of a spirit after dinner: “It has the noble wood, classic and on the dry side.”
Decanter – 98 POINTS, PLATINUM MEDAL DECANTER WORLD WINE AWARDS 2019
August 2019
“This sings from the glass with a sweet spice, marmalade, molasses, clove, nutty, toffee, caramel and balsamic perfume. Very complex array of flavours including roasted coffee, scorched earth, fig and walnut. A distinctive style, done very well. High impressive.”
The Wine Advocate -94 POINTS
February 28, 2019, Mark Squires
“The NV RP 30 Year Old Tawny Port was bottled in February 2018 with a bar-top cork and 140 grams of residual sugar. The winery produces around 5,500 liters per annum of this 30 Year (typically, they do not make a 40). On opening, it’s all about the sweetness, but this is remarkably fresh and elegant. Although the sweet finish obscures the complexity at first, this typically is where you are most likely to get it in the Ramos Pinto lineup of tawnies, and eventually you do (particularly the next day). Once it shakes off the bottle slumber, this 30 Year Tawny demonstrates that it is also the most tightly wound and most intense of the winery’s submissions this issue. That means that it is pretty fine, and in a great place. This is lovely and exciting, more or less along the lines of the last couple of releases that I saw.”
