1994 Wine and Port Vintage
Vintage Summary and Recommendations: A short summary of the fabulous 1994 Vintage with our top recommendations Visit our 1994 Wine and Port Offer Page 1994 Wine and Port
If you were born or have an anniversary in 1994 - then you are in luck! The 1994 vintage produced some of the finest Ports and wines of the late 20th century, with exceptional quality in Bordeaux, the Douro Valley, and various regions of Italy. These wines are highly sought after by collectors and connoisseurs as they are drinking well and continue to command high prices.
Our Wine Expert currently recommends the following wines for this year:
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Bordeaux: The 1994 vintage is generally rated as good but a little inconsistent. The top estates produced some very fine wines that are far superior to those in the poor years between 1991 and 1993. The best 1994 Bordeaux wines are characterised by high tannin levels with rich fruit and should mature well over the next few years.
Italian: In Tuscany, the Chianti Classico, Vino Nobile and Brunello had a very good year with a warm early Spring. The good weather conditions carried through to the harvest season with healthy, ripe fruit. In Piedmont prolonged rain caused serious problems, however a few producers still made good Barolo and Barbaresco wines.
Portugal: A 1994 Vintage Port makes a great 30 year old wine gift for a 30th birthday or anniversary: 1994 was one of the great vintages of the 20th Century that produced classic, monumental port wines with rich fruit character. While these wines can be approached in their youth, the best need 20 years in bottle, making them mature for drinking now or perfect to age for another 20 years. Our wine buyer highly recommends the 1994 Taylor's Vintage Port , an outstanding Vintage Port that scored an incredible 100 points from Wine Spectator and 97 from Robert Parker.
Spain: This was the ‘Aaah!’ vintage; after three years of drought and indifferent quality, nature relented and provided one of the best vintages of the century (compared by many producers with the legendary 1964). The grapes showed tremendous ripeness, colour and extract. This was a truly great vintage in the making, although (or perhaps because) it was relatively low in quantity.
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Palmer Port
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30 Year Old Tawny Port
Special Offer | Was £79.95 | Now £59.95
The Palmer 30 Year tawny Port is ready to drink having aged in oak for an average of thirty years. Time in cask has defined a concentrated tawny port with pronounced and layered aromas of dried fruits and walnuts. A sweet mouthfeel of vanilla and honey, and further notes of dried fig, toffee and refreshing caramelised citrus render this wine balance and multifaceted complexity. A tawny port faithful to its tradition, with a warming, rich, long finish.
Serving & Food Pairing:
Tawny Ports are ready-to drink and do not require decanting. Best enjoyed slightly chilled at 12-13ºC they will work wonders if pairing with treacle tart, crème brulee or nut based desserts, like hazelnut praline. …
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Price: $77.33 USD
Stock: 38 in Stock
Quevedo, 1994
Colheita Port
There is a wonderful story to the release of the 1994 Quevedo Colheita Port. The wine was voted "Port of the Night" during a recent tasting with Oscar Quevedo, and so, we persuaded him to release a small quantity. Only 300 bottles released by popular demand!
This extraordinary Colheita Port from Quevedo was born during the widely acclaimed 1994 vintage. With meticulous care, it fermented in granite vats and aged for 30 years in chestnut wood barrels. With refreshing acidity, a rich medley of flavors of creme brulee, nutty undertones, and a hint of caramel, it presents an elegant and complex palate. …
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Price: $127.70 USD
Stock: 6 in Stock
Quevedo
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30 Year Old White Port in own presentation gift box
***93 Points - Wine Advocate***
Presented in Quevedo Gift Box
Special Offer | was £89.95 | Now £69.95
This outstanding 30 Year Old white port from Quevedo embodies a blend of some of the finest whites from Oscar and Claudia's cellars. Aged for an average of thirty years in cask, this elegant white port shows an intense aromatic profile of orange citrus notes, apricots and almonds. Full bodied on the palate with pronounced notes of spices and dried stone fruits, mouthwatering acidity and a long, lingering finish with layers of marmalade and spice. A very complex blend, which represents the traditional Quevedo family style exceptionally well.
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White Ports are ready to drink and do not require decanting. …
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Price: $90.23 USD
Stock: 60 in Stock
Quinta da Devesa
30 year old White Port(50cl)
Devesa Presentation Box
***94 Points- Wine Advocate***
This 30-year White Port from Devesa is a field blend made from vines that are at least 50 years old. An aged white Port wine that presents a very complex aromatic bouquet, with great aromas of evolution such as balsamic notes, dried fruits, candied orange peel, raisins, and dried apricots. It is a fantastic, fresh, juicy white Port wine that ends with a mouthwatering acidity. Its significantly superior complexity accounts for most of the flavour difference. With its seemingly never-ending finale, this is simply stunning and closes the sale. A beautiful Port that you will enjoy savouring in your glass. …
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Price: $90.23 USD
Stock: 11 in Stock
Quinta da Devesa
30 year old Tawny Port in presentation box (75cl)
***94 Points - Robert Parker***
This multi awarded 30-Year-Old Tawny Port from the artisan producer Quinta Da Devesa has been matured in the cool cellars of Portugal's Atlantic coast for thirty years. Developed with noble grapes used in the Douro region, this cask-aged Port reveals pronounced aromas of honey, molasses and dried fruit. On the palate it is viscous and full bodied, unctuous, with a wonderful sweetness that is harmoniously balanced by its refreshing acidity. The finish is long with layered honey, roasted hazelnut and allspice flavours.
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Tawny Ports are ready-to drink and do not require decanting. …
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Price: $103.13 USD
Stock: 33 in Stock
Ryst Dupeyron Armagnac, 1994
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Ryst Dupeyron Reserve Joseph Millesime vintage Armagnac
50cl bottle
Includes gift box
Special Offer | Was £99 | Now £79.95
The 1994 Armagnac from Ryst-Dupeyron is the expression of a single year and has the unique character associated with the year and the cask in which it has been stored. There is a wonderful contrast between the sweet and sour flavours of wood, amplified by the strong alcoholic degree. Rich palate feeling the alcohol and the concentration of dry plums, spicy with persistent flavour of rancio and of spices, but round, soft and long in the finish.
Serving & Food Pairing: Even though it can be enjoyed as an apéritif, Armagnac is best appreciated at the end of a meal. It pairs well with coffee or a Cuban or Dominican cigar, as the flavors of cocoa, honey and black pepper enhance its aromas. …
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Price: $103.13 USD
Stock: 30 in Stock
Barolo Prandi, 1994
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Cantine Prandi, Piedmont
SpeciaL Offer | Was £129 | Now £99
The 1994 Barolo Cantine Prandi has come from the producer's historic cellars where it has laid undisturbed since bottling. It has matured to perfection and is perfect to drink now.
Barolo is a red wine produced in the Piedmont region of Italy. Made from the Nebbiolo grape, it is known for its garnet colour, intense flavours of cherry, plum, and spice, as well as its high tannin content. Barolo wines are often aged for several years, resulting in complex flavors and aromas. They are considered some of Italy's finest and most age-worthy wines.
Serving & Food Pairing:
Barolos are best served at 18ºC. …
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Price: $127.70 USD
Stock: 83 in Stock
Bodegas Toro Albalá, 1994
DON PX 1994. Sweet Wine, Montilla-Moriles.
Half Bottle 37.5 Cl
Matured in a cool cathedral-style bodega, hallmark of Andalucian maturation process, this 1994 Gran Reserva PX is a hugely complex and intense wine, elaborated with Pedro Ximénez grapes harvested in mid-August and laid under the sun for 7 to 9 days to concentrate all their sugars. After the press, it was left to rest for 12 months in stainless steel tanks and, when the period came to an end, it was stored in American oak butts for 27 years
Don PX are our signature. Each one of them is taken care of with exclusivity, from the harvest to the raisining, obtaining a unique personality. …
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Price: $70.94 USD
Stock: 80 in Stock
Bodegas Toro Albalá, 1994
DON PX 1994. Sweet Wine, Montilla-Moriles.
75cl bottle
This excellent Gran Reserva 1994 is a complex and intense wine, elaborated with Pedro Ximénez grapes harvested in mid-August and laid under the sun for 7 to 9 days to concentrate all their sugars. After the press, it was left to rest for 12 months in stainless steel tanks and, when the period came to an end, it was stored in American oak butts for 27 years
Don PX are our signature. Each one of them is taken care of with exclusivity, from the harvest to the raisining, obtaining a unique personality.
TASTING NOTES
Sight: Dark mahogany. Its movement tints the glass with iodized tones. …
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Price: $101.90 USD
Stock: 102 in Stock
Burmester
30 Year Old Tawny Port, Douro
Presented in Gift Tube
***94 Points - Robert Parker***
We are delighted to offer a UK exclusive on Burmester Colheita Ports.
Deep brown colour with greenish hints. Complex and powerful nose, dominated by the strong presence of the dried fruits and spices, combined with a subtle and refined note of vanilla. In the mouth it is concentrated, silky and engaging. A wine with an irreprehensible structure, great character and an apotheotic finish.
The Burmester 30 Year Old Tawny is a classic wine of exceptional quality and elegance.
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Price: $103.13 USD
Stock: 48 in Stock
D'Oliveiras Madeira, 1994
Verdelho
Madeira is made on the volcanic island of the same name situated in the Atlantic ocean some 400 miles off the North African coast. The sub-tropical island was discovered in 1419 and named for the word for wood or timber.
This sweet, amber-tinged Madeira, has keen acidity and a long and mellow finish, with a certain delicacy.
*Bottled in 2023
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Price: $230.89 USD
Stock: 34 in Stock
Kopke
30 Year Old Tawny Port - 75cl (Includes Kopke presentation box)
Special Offer | Was £89.95 | Now £74.95
Kopke Port is the oldest port house. Established in 1638 by Nicolau Kopke and his son Cristiano, who came to Portugal as representatives of the Hanseatic League, the House has been run through the generations by several representatives of the Kopke family, obtaining an excellent reputation for its wines.
Tasting Notes:
Soft, rich but not unctuous. Lovely balance of dried apricots & nutty complexity. Good poise with an attractive nose, great age and perfect balance. Perhaps the finest 30 year old we ever tasted - layers of caramel, penuche and butterscotch -an extremely refined blend.
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Price: $96.68 USD
Stock: 6 in Stock
Kopke, 1994
Vintage Port
HALF BOTTLE 37.5cl
A very rare bottle of Vintage Port from Kopke.
This port from the outstanding 1994 vintage has a light mature straw colour. Excellent bouquet of red fruit, candy floss. Good body, caramel, with a good long finish.
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Price: $77.33 USD
Stock: 7 in Stock
Messias
30 Year Old Tawny Port
***Special Offer | WAS £89.95 | NOW £59.95***
***91 Points Wine Advocate (Mark Squires)***
This aged Tawny Port from Messias has a characteristic bouquet of of dried fruits, spices and roasting, most evident in wines matured in the barrel. In the mouth, turns out to be a soft and harmonious wine, with a very persistent aroma and a good long finish.
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Price: $77.33 USD
Stock: 35 in Stock
Quinta Das Carvalhas
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30 Year Old Tawny Port
***93 Points Wine Enthusiast***
Includes FREE 50ml Taster Sample
Special Offer | was £89.95 | Now £79.95
Quinta das Carvalhas 30 Year Old tawny Port: We are delighted to exclusively offer these outstanding Ports and wines from one of the most iconic estate in the Douro Valley.
"With the maturity of this fine wine has come wisdom without wrinkles. The Port has a velvet texture that just slips by—the dried fruits offer a glimpse through the wine's maturity. Drink this wine now." — Roger Voss
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Price: $103.13 USD
Stock: 51 in Stock
São Leonardo by Quinta do Mourao
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30 Year Old Tawny Port
94 Points- Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Special Offer | Was £119 | Now £99
Deep tawny colour. Intense aromas like dried fruits and honey. Full-bodied, smooth and harmonious on the palate with a great balance between sweetness and acidity. Long and persistent finish.
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Price: $127.70 USD
Stock: 31 in Stock
São Leonardo by Quinta do Mourao
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New
30 Year Old White Port
*** 92 Points- Robert Parker's Wine Advocate ***
Special Offer | Was £119 | Now £99
Golden colour. Intense aromas of dried fruits and spices with a special touch of white pepper in the palate. Long and very persistent finish.
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Price: $127.70 USD
Stock: 9 in Stock
30 Year Old Offley
Tawny Port (Comes in Green Gift Tube as illustrated)
Tasting notes
Amber in colour, with appealing greenish hints. Its bouquet is very intense and complex, with notes of caramel, mocha, nuts and tobacco leaf. This is a very well-balanced and unctuous wine that shows a delicate structure and sublime finish.
Production method
Hand-picked grapes undergo stalk-removal and crushing before fermentation, under controlled temperature, with skin maceration. The addition of wine alcohol at the ideal moment sets the balance between the wine's body and bouquet. Ageing in wooden casks in the cellars of Vila Nova de Gaia, the final blend results from a selection of wines between 25 and 40 years. …
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Price: $90.23 USD
Stock: 3 in Stock
Bairrada, 1994
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Quinta Poço do Lobo - Cabernet Sauvignon
Special offer | Was £79.95 | Now £59.95
Caves S. Joao, established in 1920, became a dominant force in Portuguese wine making in the early 20th century with their houses Porta dos Cavaleiros in Dao and Frei Joao in Bairrada. Given the shifting trends in consumer preferences, Bairrada and Dao fell to obscurity in the 1990s when critical influence drove the demand for bigger, extracted, warmer climate wines. As in all things, however, what comes around goes around! Sure enough, 20 years later savvy consumers and food-conscious sommeliers are looking for finesse and freshness and heading back to Bairrada and Dao. Wines that when young had a vegetal character, …
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Price: $76.10 USD
Stock: 24 in Stock
Barbaresco, 1994
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Castello di Neive - Santo Stefano
Special offer | was £89.95 | Now £59.95
Barbaresco is one of the great wines of Italy's north-western Piedmont region. This aristocratic red has its vineyards situated in the Langhe, on the right-hand side of the Tanaro river and extending from the area north-east of Alba to the communes of Barbaresco, Nieve and Treiso. The dominant variety grown is Nebbiolo, but Dolcetto and Barbera also play a part. The vines are generally grown on limestone-rich marl soils. similar to the Tortonium soils of the Barolo and La Morra areas in Barolo. Similar to its more famous sibling Barolo, Barbaresco is made from 100% Nebbiolo and shares its cult status as one of the finest wines in the world. …
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Price: $114.80 USD
Stock: 36 in Stock
Bramaterra, 1994
Luigi Perazzi ** Was £79 | Now £55 **
Produced mainly with Nebbiolo grapes cultivated on the slopes of Monte Rosa, west of Gattinara, of medium aging, 2 years minimum, it comes from a knowledgeable use of aging wood. Of ruby color, complex scents of mature fruit and spices, fresh and austere body. It's suited for a medium/long aging.
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Price: $89.00 USD
Stock: 1 in Stock
Burmester's 30 Years of Tawny Port
20 Year Old Tawny and a 10 Year Old Tawny ***Presented in Our Two-Bottle Leather Gift Box***
A wonderful gift for a 30th anniversary. This double gift box contains two 75cl bottles of Rich Tawny Port beautifully presented in a silk lined gift box:
Burmester blends its magnificent Tawny Ports from its extensive reserves of old cask aged Ports matured in the firm’s cool and tranquil cellars, (known as ‘lodges’) in Oporto on Portugal’s Atlantic coast.
Burmester 20 Year Old Tawny:
***Gold medal Decanter World Wine Awards,2015***
***90 Points- Outstanding, Aggregated critic score***
Burmester 20 Year Old Tawny Port has plenty of sweet fruits and ripe dark brown sugar and raisins. …
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Price: $109.58 USD
Stock: 10 in Stock
Cabernet, 1994
Giorgio Zaglia
A classic red Italian wine made from the Cabernet Sauvignon grape. The wine has aged to produce a garnet core with a clear rim. Lots of oak, leather and soft tannins remain.
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Price: $89.00 USD
Stock: 1 in Stock
Calem Port, 1994
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Vintage Port
Excellent provenance | Calem Library Stock
Special offer | Was £119 | Now £79.95
The Calem 1994 Vintage Port has been stored in the Calem cellars and released in 2020.
The 1994 Calem Vintage Port has a deep garnet colour, with a hint of blue in the meniscus. Black fruits and blackberries dominate on the nose with tobacco and spirits. Beautiful in the mouth with alcohol and resolved tannins, great fruit still dominates. Lovely finish. 92/100 TC VWP 11/19
Vivino review:
It has a dense, even, opaque crimson colour, with a very rich, dark well of black fruit and floral aromas, with all sorts of mineral and delicately spicy nuances. On the palate this has a beautifully focused sweetness, with a supple, svelte quality of black fruits, that is pure and very long and silky through the mid palate. …
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Price: $103.13 USD
Stock: 35 in Stock
Chateau Beychevelle, 1994
St Julien 4me Cru Classe
The 1994 Chateau Beychevellw has a very fine nose, sweet fruit of cassis in the foreground, on the palate in the beginning the same almost sweet cassisfruit, some earthy tones, little mineralic, herbs, dry and fresh, midweight body, fine with meat, long finish.
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Price: $166.40 USD
Stock: 12 in Stock