The Quinta da Gaivosa is a field blend from 80+-year-old vines (with some 20 different grapes) aged for 20 months in 50% new French oak. It comes in at 14.6% alcohol. The winery thought this was a fabulous year. And Tiago Alves de Sousa said that it was the "driest ever since there are records in the Douro, making it also the most precocious harvest we ever had. To face the extreme conditions of the vintage, we had vineyards that were harvested almost one month before its average date.