The 2008 Late Bottled Vintage Port is a blend of 30% Touriga Nacional, 30% Touriga Franca, 20% Tinta C?o, and 10% each of Tinta Roriz and Tinta Barroca, aged in Douro in used Portuguese wooden vats. It comes in at 91 grams per liter of residual sugar. It was bottled in December 2013. The freshest and most tannic in this Noval vertical this issue–and not coincidentally the youngest–this seems at the moment more penetrating than the luscious 2007 (a much bigger vintage in Douro), but that may change as they both age. Like all of the Noval LBVs in this report, on Day 2 it showed better when it woke up, became expressive and showed off its fine structure. Demonstrating the vigor and vibrancy that goes with youth, it is delicious as well as focused. It is not perhaps quite as deep as some years, but it substitutes a lot of charm. We'll see where this goes in time–but at the moment, it is quite impressive.