Pocas
Pocas Port celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2019. Popular in Portugal, we have the pleasure in bring this high quality great value port to the UK. Slightly drier in style to the usual "English shippers", this offers something unique for the port lover.
Focused on the Portuguese market, Pocas offers a drier style of port tailored more towards the European preference. For our tasting team this makes for a refreshing change from the sweeter style English focussed ports. Highlights include tasting the sublime 1967 colheita and also the recent 2017 vintage. There was also a lovely curiosity called Quinado which is a port blended with quinine to form a liquor (technically it cant be called port) like no other we have tasted. Originally it was blended a a preventative for malaria but now it has been recreated as a liquor.
The grapes come from three key Quintas:
Quinta das Quartas
The Poças winemaking centre. Planted with more than 2.5 ha of vines, this quinta is noted for its immense wine lodge where the firm’s Port Wine is aged. Up 25,000 hectolitres of wines are stored in wooden casks ranging in size from 267-Litre hogsheads to 88,000-Litre vats. Since 1996 the wines from all of Poças’ quintas have been made at this modern winery
QUINTA STA BARBARA
This quinta, planted with approximately 33 ha of vines and a lovely walled orange grove, produces some of Poças’ finest Vintages and LBV Ports under the Quinta de Santa Bárbara label. The name of the property comes from an earlier quinta that boasts a chapel to this saint and an astounding panoramic landscape view of Peso da Régua.
QUINTA DE VALE DE CAVALOS
Located in Numão, a prime winemaking region, all the vineyards are planted with the finest varieties of vines. The quinta was purchased in 1988 and boasts approximately 51 hectares of land under vines, divided in three lots: Ribeira Teja, Catapereiro, Tanque and Zoc.
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Pocas, 2018
Vintage Port, DOC Douro
Special Collectors Edition
Poças Vintage 2018 is the most pure and perfect translation of how special this year was, and still is, for the Poças family, as they celebrated their first 100 years! This wine symbolizes the memories, stories and strong relationships that are integral to a successful family business. They are the reason why family businesses succeed over so many generations. This Special Collector’s Edition Vintage Port, with a unique design, carries the names of the family and long-standing friends and clients, who participated in the collaborative “lagarada” celebrating the 100th anniversary of the company. …
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Price: $77.33 USD
Stock: 32 in Stock
Pocas, 2017
Vintage Port, DOC Douro
Single Bottle In Gift Case
Review Scores
*** 17.5+/20 Jancis Robinson ***
Tasting Notes A masterpiece - even better than the outstanding 2015. Classic Pocas, drier and less sweet that the English shippers. Deep ruby colour. Aroma of great aromatic intensity where floral aromas predominate, ripe fruit and compote. Silky, elegant and balanced. Very expressive mouth with fruity and persistent finish. Tasted April 2019.
Serving Tips & Storage When mature this port will need to be decanted to remove sediment. Serve at room temperature on its own or with steak and blue cheese sauce or vintage mature blue cheeses such as stilton Cashel Blue, Roquefort, Gorgonzola and Saint Augur Blue. …
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Price: $64.43 USD
Stock: 12 in Stock
Pocas
10 Year Old WHITE port, DOC Douro
Includes Pocas Gift Tube
***93 points- Decanter Panel Tasting 2018***
***91 Points- Wine Enthusiast***
90 pts Robert Parker - Golden color with notes of caramel, citrus and milk cream. Very elegant in the mouth, smooth and evolving. End of mouth long, soft and leaving a trail of fruit very pleasant.
Store and Serve Advice:
It should be served at room temperature 18ºC/64ºF or slightly chilled and stored upright.
Food Pairing:
Splendid with cheese, pastry, sweets, nuts, light puddings and cakes or on its own.
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Price: $34.76 USD
Stock: 8 in Stock
Pocas, 2011
Sale
Vintage Port, Douro
With own Cardboard Presentation Box
94 pts Wine Spectator
CLEARANCE | DISCONTINUED LINE | Was £69.95 | NOW £45
Review Scores
94 pts Wine Spectator - This is one of the very few Ports where you can discern a scintilla of over-ripeness on the prune and raisin-scented bouquet. It is very heady, but there is a little nail-varnish in the background. The palate is smooth and viscous on the entry – a hedonistic, fiery, honeyed, almost “unctuous” Vintage Port that needs to develop more restraint and reserve on the finish, which is slightly cloying.
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Price: $58.05 USD
Stock: 15 in Stock
Pocas, 2008
Colheita Port, Douro
90 points in Wine Enthusiast Magazine
Mahogany color, aroma a bit closed, with notes of marmalade, dried apricots and hazelnuts. Very well in the mouth, with class and is not being too oily, gives a good proof, elegant and good ending.-90 pts Wine Enthusiast-
Colheita Port Storage and Serving Advice:
Colheita Port should be stored in a cool and dry place, sheltered from light and temperature fluctuations, and the bottle should remain in an upright position. If stored correctly, Colheita Ports will keep for decades in the bottle. Over time, it is natural that a little sediment will form at the bottom of a bottle of Colheita Port wine. …
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Price: $45.08 USD
Stock: 9 in Stock
Pocas, 2016
Sale
Vintage Port
** 93 Points Robert Parker **
Clearance Offer | Discontinued Line | Was £59.95 | now £35
Review Scores
93 Points Robert Parker
Dense ruby color. Very fresh aromas with elegant notes of blackberry, black plum, chocolate, coffee steam, tobacco leaf and spices. Silky in the mouth, enveloping, tasty with round but firm tannins. Elegant.
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Price: $45.15 USD
Stock: Out of Stock
Pocas, 2000
Colheita Port, Douro
Includes Pocas open Gift Box
90 points in Wine Enthusiast Magazine
Mahogany colour, aroma a bit closed, with notes of marmalade, dried apricots and hazelnuts. Very well in the mouth, with class and is not being too oily, gives a good proof, elegant and good ending.-90 pts Wine Enthusiast-
Colheita Port Storage and Serving Advice:
Colheita Port should be stored in a cool and dry place, sheltered from light and temperature fluctuations, and the bottle should remain in an upright position. If stored correctly, Colheita Ports will keep for decades in the bottle. Over time, it is natural that a little sediment will form at the bottom of a bottle of colheita Port wine. …
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Price: $50.24 USD
Stock: Out of Stock