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Welcome to Vintage Wine and Port

Vintage Wine and Port is a leading UK port retailer specialising in quality vintage port at direct purchase prices. These make a unique and thoughtful gifts for any occasion.

A gift of vintage port from a special year makes a unique and thoughtful present for anniversaries, birthdays, christenings and other special occasions. With over 1000 bottles of vintage port in stock, spanning 100 years, any occasion can be catered for.

Our Vintage Ports are delivered by Courier within 3 working days and come with a quality guarantee.

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About Vintage Port

Although it accounts for only about two percent of production, vintage port is the flagship wine of all Portugal. Vintage port is made entirely from the grapes of a declared vintage year. Not every year is declared a vintage in the Douro; only those when conditions are favourable to the production of a fine and lasting wine. The decision on whether to declare a vintage is made in the spring of the second year following the harvest. The decision to declare a vintage is made by each individual port house, often referred to as a 'shipper'. Conventional shippers will declare, on average, about three times a decade.

Vintage ports are aged in barrels for a maximum of two and a half years before bottling, and generally require another ten to thirty years of aging in the bottle before reaching what is considered a proper drinking age. Since they are aged in barrels for only a short time, they retain their dark ruby colour and fresh fruit flavours. Particularly fine vintage ports can continue to gain complexity and drink wonderfully for many decades after they were bottled, and therefore can be particularly sought-after and expensive wines.

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