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I had the luck of tasting one of only two bottles that remained in the Barbeito cellars of the 1957 Boal, a historic wine for Ricardo Freitas because it was the first "frasqueira" wine that he bottled. It feels a little reductive, closed with hints of mushrooms, iodine, a metallic touch, with hints of blood and iron. The wine is marked with sediment and shows strong concentration. It has a polished palate and integrated sugar. It was bottled in the mid of the 1990s.
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Jancis Robinson MW
Luis Gutiérrez, Wine Advocate
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Bottled 1992. 1,200 bottles. Pale greenish tawny. Sweet and smudgy nose. Lots of delicacy and rose petals and then smoked meat and acidity. There’s certainly a lot here! Undertow of richness. A subtle wine, although there’s a little bit of astringency on the finish. (JR)