2021 Wine and Port Vintage

Vintage Summary and Recommendations: Welcome to Vintage Wine and Port's 2021 wine page. Read on for our summary of the 2021 vintage, our top recommendations and region reports. Scroll down to see all of our wines currently available. If you cannot find what you are looking for please call us on 01425 837177 or Contact Us. We would love to help you with your wine choice!

The world's weather has become increasingly wild in recent years, and looks set to continue as climate change tightens its grip. Although much of the growing season for 2021 was distinctly odd the world over, much of the vintage was surprisingly good, some even excellent.

Our Wine Expert currently recommends the following wines for this year:

Quevedo 2021 Vintage Port

Kopke 2021 Vintage Port

Barbera dAlba 2021 Massolino Gisep

Quinta da Fonte Souto 2020 White Wine

 
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Italian: Italy experienced some fairly wild weather, however, some great wines are likely to emerge from both Piedmont and Tuscany. It will just be a question of both careful research and patience as some of these wines, particularly Barolo, will need years before they come into their own.
 
Portugal: Vintage Port: The 2021 vintage was defined by a dry and hot summer which brought the harvest forward. However, the rains in early September, combined with mild temperatures, slowed down the pace of grape maturation to create wines of “great elegance” rewarding those producers who waited for drier conditions. The grapes picked before the period of more intense rain resulted in musts with higher concentrations of both colour and aromas, a contrast to the remaining harvest, which produced wines with more freshness and elegance.

Carlos Alves, head winemaker at Sogevinous said ““The 2021 campaign was defined by the irregular pace of grape maturation, which resulted in low levels of sugar, inducing our winemaking and viticulture teams to work closely with the aim to determine the exact optimum picking dates – an increasingly critical factor in the final quality of the wines. Although this harvest was a difficult one, we are pleased with the wines it's produced and so far I think the wines will stand out for their elegance rather than structure, and they will certainly age beautifully given their natural acidity – both traits that qualify for excellent wines,”

The grapes picked before the period of more intense rain resulted in musts with higher concentrations of both colour and aromas, a contrast to the remaining harvest, which produced wines with more freshness and elegance – and these, according to Carlos Alves, are the traits that define the 2021 harvest.

“Although this harvest was a difficult one, we are pleased with the wines it's produced and so far I think the wines will stand out for their elegance rather than structure, and they will certainly age beautifully given their natural acidity – both traits that qualify for excellent wines,” he added.

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