Quinta da Romaneira, Douro Tinto

If I told you this was an exquisitely built, nearly decade-old red from a region-defining estate, where would you start the pricing? $50…$75…$100+? You’d be spot-on for most classic producers/regions—except one: Quinta da Romaneira in the ancient Douro Valley. Their long-aged 2011 is among the most complete bottles of wine out there, in the sense that it delivers pure authenticity and incalculable depth, not to mention that it is as elegantly stunning as it is affordable. Truly, it's wines exactly like this—there aren’t as many as you’d think—that get veteran sommeliers on the edge of their seats and keep them captivated from first pour to last sip.When we offered their entry-level “Sino da Romaneira” last year, an astounding amount of you stepped out of your comfort zones and discovered a beautiful bottle of wine—some of you even went as far as writing back glowing reviews. That compelled us to get right to work securing Romaneira’s even-more-impressive flagship red. And while it took