{"id":11811,"date":"2015-11-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/viniportugal.leadershipbt.com\/wines-of-portugal-on-wine-enthusiast-top-100-cellar-selection\/"},"modified":"2015-11-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T00:00:00","slug":"wines-of-portugal-on-wine-enthusiast-top-100-cellar-selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/viniportugal.leadershipbt.com\/en\/wines-of-portugal-on-wine-enthusiast-top-100-cellar-selection\/","title":{"rendered":"Wines of Portugal on Wine Enthusiast &#8220;Top 100 Cellar Selection&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/viniportugal.leadershipbt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Others_-_Imagem_Default_-_740.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"rich-text\">The Wines of Portugal totaled 7 positions in the prestigious Top 100 Cellar Selection<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"rich-text\">Good things come to those who wait. The virtue of patience becomes a wine drinker\u2019s Golden Rule. Letting a bottle mature over time, allowing it to develop into a beautiful work of art, is no easy feat. It takes willpower to leave a bottle untouched for years.The Magazine Wine Enthusiast distinguishes every year the wines considered true treasures to keep in the cellar of the most patient wine lovers. This year, the editors of Wine Enthusiast highlighted 5 wines from Douro wine region and 2 from Alentejo wine region, in the list that elects the top 100 of the world in this category. The red wine Quinta do Vale do Me\u00e3o 2012 from Douro is the best rated Portuguese wine on the list, placed in 4th place with 97 points. The Wine Enthusiast characterized it long-lasting wine showing a fresh character, with dense, dark tannins and intense floral fruit. This will age for many years, so don\u2019t drink before 2020. Portuguese wines in the Top 100 Cellar Selections: #4 Quinta do Vale Me\u00e3o 2012, Red Wine (Douro) \u2014 97 points #27 Prats &amp; Symington LDA 2012 Chryseia (Douro) \u2014 95 points #41 Herdade de S\u00e3o Miguel 2011 Private Collection (Alentejano) \u201494 points #52 Luis Duarte 2012 Rubrica (Alentejano) \u2014 94 points #57 Quinta dos Mur\u00e7as 2010 Reserve (Douro) \u2014 94 points #68 Wine &amp; Soul 2012 Pintas Red Wine (Douro) \u2014 95 points #77 Quinta da Foz 2011 Grande Reserve (Douro) \u2014 94 points<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wines of Portugal totaled 7 positions in the prestigious Top 100 Cellar Selection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-sem-categoria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/viniportugal.leadershipbt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/viniportugal.leadershipbt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/viniportugal.leadershipbt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viniportugal.leadershipbt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viniportugal.leadershipbt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/viniportugal.leadershipbt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/viniportugal.leadershipbt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viniportugal.leadershipbt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viniportugal.leadershipbt.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}