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91+ pts Wine Advocate
Drink Date: 2024 – 2030
I tasted again the 2022 Manoella Tinto that had settled in bottle for one year. I think this cooler property is showing quite well in the warm 2022 vintage. The wine has only 13% alcohol, which is even lower than the 2021. It keeps the profile, fruit-driven and primary, perhaps with some notes of graphite and more tannins, serious and harmonious, showing really well. 87,240 bottles produced. It was bottled in June 2024.

Husband and wife Jorge Serdio and Sandra Tavares keep producing some of the finest whites from Douro and a collection of modern reds from over 40 hectares of vineyards. The whites were from 2023 and 2021 and the reds from 2022, cooler years for the whites and warmer for the reds. Published:Apr 17, 2025

My Tasting Note (2021)
I tasted the 2021 and think it was one of the best versions of this wine ever made. The nose rises up from the glass with pure, fresh and very pleasant red to dark red fruits like cherries, currants and blueberries, the terroir that comes through via stone notes that are a little smoky, this is quite the bottle of wine. Med/Med+ bodied, this has fresh acidity that is perfectly integrated. The finish is fresh and long, pulling you back in for one more sniff snd sip.

Grapes
60% Touriga Nacional
25% Touriga Franca
10% Tinta Roriz
5% Tinta Francisca
– Foot-trodden in open granite lagares fermented for 8 days at low temperatures.
– Aged for 16 months in used French barriques
– Vines average 43 years-old
– A classic representation of Douro Valley terroir at a GREAT price
– Steep schist hard rock terraces