Quinta do Noval 2004 Vintage Nacional

One of the World's greatest and most highly prized wines. This cellar wine will mature over the years and develop a complex variety of aromas. It can be drunk young to taste the intensity of its fruit, but best drunk 5-50 years after bottling. One to hang onto for a truly special occasion! 

Nacional is quite an extraordinary wine from Quinta do Noval. It does not always follow the same trends as the rest of the wines from this producer. In some years, a great Nacional is produced when Noval does not even declare the Quinta do Noval Vintage! Other years, Quinta do Noval make a superb Vintage bottling, and the Nacional does not perform. And of course, sometimes both the Nacional and the rest of Quinta do Noval produce outstanding quality wines, however different in style! This was the case in 2011. 

The word "Nacional" refers to the fact that the vines are Portuguese vines growing in Portuguese soil with no foreign root stock, and are therefore "attached to the soil of the nation". The vines are planted in a small area at the heart of the Quinta do Noval vineyard. Planted with ungrafted vines and untouched by Phylloxera.