2020 Wine and Port Vintage
Vintage Summary and Recommendations: Welcome to Vintage Wine and Port's 2020 wine page. Read on for our summary of the 2020 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 2020 vintage was undoubtedly one of the most challenging in recent history. The Covid pandemic that began in 2019 continued to ravage 2020 with everything from picking, tastings and ultimately sales affected.
Our Wine Expert currently recommends the following wines for this year:
This Year in History: Fun Fact: May 2020 was reported as the sunniest on recent record with 266 hours of sunshine.
Eurovision Winner: CANCELLED!! Covid!
Highest Grossing Film: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train
France: In France, the 2020 Bordeaux vintage was particularly disrupted by the pandemic as Covid put a halt to the normal tastings and events that surround the En Primeur campaign. However, despite the complications that arose from Covid, the Bordeaux vintage is looking surprisingly promising.
Portugal: A hot summer and a pandemic led to a small production of very good concentrated wines. The Douro experienced above average temperatures for most of the year with a record July, a worrying sign of global warming. This resulted in harvesting at the end of August - a couple of weeks earlier than usual. Yields are low at the best of times but 2020 produced only a tiny crop of super concentrated grapes. Factor in labour shortages, social distancing logistics issues caused by the pandemic and the production was tiny. Those producers who did produce a vintage Port generally made a stunningly dark, concentrated wine similar to the 2009 vintage. Symington Family released a small quantity of Graham and Warre's Old Vines. Noval declared as did Quevedo and a few others. Notable exceptions were Taylor-Fladgate who produced single quintas that will be released in future years and Sogrape who did not produce a vintage port for Offley, Ferreira or Sandeman.
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