2019 Van Zellers & Co, VZ Tinto

Cristiano van Zeller lancerer det genfødte familie-brand Van Zellers & Co med bravour. De første vine er sindsoprivende flotte. Denne premiere fra højtliggende marker med op til 80 år gamle stokke er ekstraordinært vellykket. Den indbydende, frugtdrevne næse har Cristiano Van Zeller's signatur i sine toner af røde bær, violer, blæk, diskret fadkrydderi, lakrids, læder, blomster, tjære, knust skifer og friske brombær. Fuldstændig harmonisk i smagen med en vidunderlig kompleks frugt styres denne superbe balancerede Douro-charmør af blid, levende syre, stenethed og silkepoleret tannin, så den virker helt tilgængelig og imødekommende fra starten og ud i en finale, hvor tanninens sødme bliver endnu mere tydelig. Den holder samtidig formentlig uden problemer 15-20 år! En ægte Cristiano Van Zeller vinder (-2039+) ****

92 points Robert Parker Wine Advocate: "The 2019 Tinto VZ is an old-vines (50 to 80 years in age) field blend aged for nine months in mostly used French barriques. It comes in at 14.1% alcohol. This is the first vintage with newly acquired vines at high altitude. A terrific offering, this is wonderfully fresh but also tightly wound and beautifully structured. It lacks the richer and bolder fruit of the 2015 in this report, but the precision, freshness and the intensity might mean this bests it eventually. It is obviously more undeveloped. I'm not really sure which I like better. They are just different, and I like both a lot. You can drink this now, but it will be better in a year, maybe two, if you have patience. It should last for 15 years from the vintage date, maybe more. We'll start there." (06/2022)