Portugal Region Report

BIOMA Vinha Velha, Douro
MAGNUM
** 95 Points- Wine Advocate **
***19/20 Points-(JH) Jancis Robinson.com***

This 2015 Bioma “Vinha Velha”, Vintage Port Wine from Niepoort is a single vineyard Vintage Port from aged vines at Vinha da Pisca (mostly + 80 years old), which is cultivated organically. A hot site, which produces impressive tannins, it formed the backbone of Niepoort Vintage Ports for many years. However,the best parcels were set aside for this wine in 2013, 2011, 2009, 2008 and (known then as Pisca) in 2007. Like Niepoort Vintage Port, Bioma was 100% foot trodden with 100% stems. It was then aged in pipes (550 litre)and will be bottled in the third year after the harvest (2018) which, says Niepoort, is what happened in the “old days” when wines were shipped to England in pipes, and bottled later. …
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Price: £199.00
Stock: 2 in Stock

Vintage Port, Douro
MAGNUM
Presented in Niepoort Gift Case

This 2015 Vintage Port Wine from Niepoort, is a blend of several Cima Corgo vineyards & (old field blend) varieties including, Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz, Tinto Cão, Tinta Francisca, Tinta Amarela, Sousão and Touriga Nacional was 100% foot trodden in granite lagares with 100% stems. The wine was aged for 2 years in “toneis” and some pipes. A vibrant Port in colour and on the palate with lovely florality – violets – and black pepper lift to its well defined its sweet, ripe, juicy and intense swathes of berry and plum fruit. Long and persistent with a ripe but palpable chassis of tannins. Already so charming and elegant such is its exquisite balance – built for the long haul. …
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Price: £139.00
Stock: 7 in Stock

Vintage Port, Douro

Quinta de La Rosa is a small estate in the heart of the Port wine-growing region in Alto Douro, near Pinhao, owned and operated by the Bergqvist family.

The Quinta and its vineyards were given to the Bergqvist family as a Christening present by the Feuerheerds, who established the property in 1906.

It remains one of the few Single Quinta where the vineyards start at the bank of the Douro and rise 450 meters to the towering top of the mountain. From the river's edge to the top, one passes through 11 different microclimates. This gives La Rosa great flexibility to add variety and complexity to its Ports. …
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Price: £49.95
Stock: 40 in Stock

Vintage Port, Douro
***95 Points- Wine Enthusiast***
***18.5/20- JancisRobinson.com***

2015 Vintage Port Wine from Quinta do Noval

“I am delighted to announce the declaration of the Quinta do Noval 2015 Vintage Port. As is well known, a Quinta do Noval declaration cannot be categorised according to the traditional distinction between a full declaration and a single quinta declaration, for the simple reason that all our greatest wines are wines from a single quinta, the great vineyard of Quinta do Noval. Whenever we decide to declare a Quinta do Noval Vintage Port, we are clearly saying that this is a great wine that deserves to bear the Quinta do Noval label.
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Price: £89.00
Stock: 38 in Stock

Vintage Port, Douro
Magnum
Presented in Wooden Gift Case
***95 Points- James Suckling***
***18.5 Points- Jancis Robinson***

The 2015 Quinta do Vesuvio Vintage Port Wine was announced by The Symington family, as a prime example of their Vintage Ports from its magnificent estate in the remote upper reaches of the Douro Valley. This is a limited bottling of just 1,001 cases: 11,400 bottles (75cl), 288 Magnums and 9 Double Magnums.

Quinta do Vesuvio is located in the Douro Superior, the demarcated region’s hottest and driest subregion with just 470 mm average annual rainfall. The property’s sheer size (326 hectares) and mountainous terrain result in varied aspects, predominantly north and northwest, as it occupies a south bank position along the Douro River. …
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Price: £174.95
Stock: 9 in Stock

Vintage Port, Douro
Double Magnum 300cl
Presented in Wooden Gift Case
***95 Points- James Suckling***
***18.5 Points- Jancis Robinson***

The 2015 Quinta do Vesuvio Vintage Port Wine was announced by The Symington family, as a prime example of their Vintage Ports from its magnificent estate in the remote upper reaches of the Douro Valley. This is a limited bottling of just 1,001 cases: 11,400 bottles (75cl), 288 Magnums and 9 Double Magnums.

Quinta do Vesuvio is located in the Douro Superior, the demarcated region’s hottest and driest subregion with just 470 mm average annual rainfall. The property’s sheer size (326 hectares) and mountainous terrain result in varied aspects, predominantly north and northwest, as it occupies a south bank position along the Douro River. …
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Price: £650.00
Stock: 1 in Stock

Quinta da Ervamoira 10 year Old Tawny
Presented in Branded Gift Box With Tasting Glass
***91 Points- Wine Advocate***
Special Offer | Was £42.90 | Now £34.95

Experience “The Art of Blending” with this luxurious gift pack, containing a full-sized bottle of Port and a perfectly designed glass that will show it in all its glory.
Tasting Notes:
Orange-red in colour with a touch of green. A well-rounded, generous aroma with balance and a hint of wine. Fruit aromas include orange, apricot and plum. Vanilla and old Port wine casks make up its woody aromas. This is a fruity tawny variety. In the mouth, one can still taste the fresh fruit surrounded by the ageing in wood. A good structure and perfect balance between fruit and alcohol.

Serving & Food Pairing:
Tawny Ports are ready-to drink and do not require decanting. …
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Price: £34.95
Stock: 7 in Stock

Vintage Port, Douro
Presented in Original Gift Box
***19/20 Points- Jancis Robinson.com***

The 2015 Vintage Port Wine from Ramos Pinto has been described as, "A wine with attractive aromas, fruit and rockrose, a good body with a long peppery finish. A Vintage which will age for many years." (Ana Rosas, Master Blender)

2015 was an excellent year in the Douro, with a very dry growing season and lower than average rainfall. A dry winter was followed by an atypically warm spring, allowing grapes to ripen fully in time for harvest in late August.

The Vintage is made from a blend of grapes from old vines grown in the Quinta de Ervamoira (Douro Superior) and Quinta do Bom Retiro (Cima Corgo). …
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Price: £79.95
Stock: 8 in Stock

Quinta da Ervamoira 10 Year old tawny Port
***90 Points- Wine Enthusiast***

For discerning wine lovers seeking a sophisticated after-dinner treat, look no further than the Ramos Pinto Quinta de Ervamoira 10 Year Old Tawny Port.

Tasting Notes:
Orange-red in colour with a touch of green. A well-rounded, generous aroma with balance and a hint of wine. Fruit aromas include orange, apricot and plum. Vanilla and old Port wine casks make up its woody aromas. This is a fruity tawny variety. In the mouth, one can still taste the fresh fruit surrounded by the ageing in wood. A good structure and perfect balance between fruit and alcohol.

Serving & Food Pairing:
Tawny Ports are ready-to drink and do not require decanting. …
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Price: £29.95
Stock: 7 in Stock

10 Year Old White Port
***90 Points- Wine Advocate***
50cl bottle

Clearance Offer - discontinued line | Was £29.95 | Now £22

Dark golden colour. Intense aromas such as fresh and dried fruits and spices.
Well balanced in the palate with both sweetness and acidity well-integrated and a long finish.



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Price: £22.00
Stock: 10 in Stock

10 Year Old Tawny Port
(Presented in a Taylor's branded tube as illustrated)
*** 94 Points - SILVER Winner- IWC 2024***

Made from a blend of some of the best wines from several vintages, Tawny Port is aged in large wood casks for almost all their life and takes on a brick-red, tawny colour. Taylor's 10 year old Tawny is an average of 10 years old.

Tasting Notes
The Taylor's 10 Year old tawny reveals aromas of ripe berry fruit with a delicate nuttiness and notes of milk chocolate. Smooth and silky on the palate and full of ripe figs, jammy and nutty flavours and a 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: £26.95
Stock: 17 in Stock

Colheita Port, Douro

Exclusive to Vintage Wine & Port.

The 2014 Palmer colheita Port is a type of tawny port wine made from a single vintage and aged in wood for at least seven years before being bottled. The 2014 Colheita Port, therefore, would have been aged in casks many years before being bottled.

Tasting Notes:
This Port has a deep tawny colour and a nose of rich and complex aromas of dried fruits, nuts, caramel, and spices. On the Palate the Port is smooth and well-balanced with flavours of fig, raisin, walnut, and toffee. There can be a hint of vanilla and a touch of spice due to the oak ageing. …
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Price: £22.95
Stock: 20 in Stock

Casa Ferreirinha `Tinta Francisca` Douro Red

This wine is deep ruby red in colour, with an intense aromas of balsamic, truffle, forest-floor and pine needles, along with notes of black pepper, asparagus and well-integrated oak. On the palate, it has firm tannins, a lively acidity, spicy notes of black pepper and a touch of saltiness on the long finish.

This producer, founded in 1952, is named after the legendary Porto matriarch Dona Antónia Ferreira. She was affectionately nicknamed ‘Ferreirinha’ by her countrymen, and Casa Ferreirinha, the first producer in the region dedicated to making light wines, pays homage to her memory. Purchased by Sogrape in 1987, it has 520 hectares of vineyard in the Douro in all of its three sub-regions: Lower Corgo, Upper Corgo and Douro Superior. …
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Price: £84.95
Stock: 5 in Stock

Vintage Port

Quinta de La Rosa is a small estate in the heart of the Port wine-growing region in Alto Douro, near Pinhao, owned and operated by the Bergqvist family.

The Quinta and its vineyards were given to the Bergqvist family as a Christening present by the Feuerheerds, who established the property in 1906.

It remains one of the few Single Quinta where the vineyards start at the bank of the Douro and rise 450 meters to the towering top of the mountain. From the river's edge to the top, one passes through 11 different microclimates. This gives La Rosa great flexibility to add variety and complexity to its Ports. …
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Price: £59.00
Stock: 33 in Stock

Vintage Port, Douro

Just 1000 cases declared by Quinta do Noval

Managing Director Christian Seely:

“I am extremely happy to be able to release Quinta do Noval Vintage Port 2014.

We continue to follow our slightly eccentric path at Quinta do Noval. The fundamental principle for us is that if we have a wine that we believe is of the quality and personality required to be bottled as a Quinta do Noval Vintage, then we should bottle it and declare it, whether or not we declared a Vintage the year before, and even if the quantity of wine involved is very small. This led us to declare very small amounts of Quinta do Noval Vintage Port in 2012, 2013, even after the generally declared year of 2011. …
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Price: £99.00
Stock: 20 in Stock

Colheita Port, Douro
75cl Bottle

Exclusive to Vintage Wine & Port.

The 2013 Palmer colheita Port is a type of tawny port wine made from a single vintage and aged in wood for at least seven years before being bottled. The 2013 Colheita Port, therefore, would have been aged in casks many years before being bottled.

Tasting Notes:
The colour has a typically be a tawny hue, evolving over time from the original deep ruby red. You can expect a rich and complex flavour profile with notes of dried fruits, nuts, caramel, and spices due to the extended aging process in wood.

Serving Suggestions
Temperature: Best served slightly chilled, around 12-16°C (54-61°F). …
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Price: £24.95
Stock: 51 in Stock

Vintage Port, Quinta Vale d'Agodinho, Douro

A 2013 vintage port wine produced by Quevedo.

"Dark cherry colour. Aroma of blackberries, raspberries and a touch of violets. On the palate beautiful texture, with good body and weight and dominated by pure primary flavors. The tannins are mostly hidden by primary fruit." - 92 pts, Robert Parker




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Price: £49.95
Stock: 10 in Stock

Dao Qta.Penedo Reserva Tinto 2013
***93/100 Points - Wine Enthusiast***
Special Offer - Better than half price! | Was £34.98 | Now £16.95

The 2013 Quinta do Penedo Reserva Tinto by Messias is a premium offering from the demarcated region of Dão, reflecting the terroir and winemaking expertise of this region. Quinta do Penedo's origin as a vineyard dates back to the year 1930, by the hand of Mr. General Santos Costa, having remained in the family until 1998, the year in which it was acquired by Caves Messias. The wine has aged to perfection and will offer an interesting discovery for those who appreciate vintage red wines.

Tasting Notes
Garnet colour of medium intensity. Mineral aroma, with notes of rockrose and macerated black fruit. …
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Price: £16.95
Stock: 2 in Stock

Colheita Port, Douro

The 2013 Messias Colheita Port represents a rich and mature expression of a cask-aged Port, offering a taste of Portuguese winemaking heritage and the nuanced flavours that come from extended barrel aging.

Tasting notes:
The extensive barrel ageing has given this port wine a tawny colour with a reddish hue. Its complex aroma includes dried fruits, nutty notes, caramel, and hints of spice and vanilla. The texture is smooth, elegant, and has a long, lingering finish.

Serving & Food Pairing
Colheita 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: £28.95
Stock: 38 in Stock

Quinta de Senhora Ribeira DOUBLE MAGNUM bottle
In original Gift Box

This 2013 Vintage Port Wine; Quinta da Senhora da Ribeira is set in the remote, hot and dry Douro Superior and commands a magnificent north bank position. Senhora da Ribeira’s wines are some of the finest in the Douro and they complement those from Bomfim in the composition of Dow’s classic Vintage Ports. The quinta’s high proportion of old vines (45% are over 25 years old) is of critical importance. The old vines are very low-yielding, producing on average less than 1Kg of grapes each, giving intense and concentrated musts which are ideal for classic Vintage Port.

1 Bottle (1 x 300cl).

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Price: £285.00
Stock: 1 in Stock

BIOMA Vinha Velha Vintage Port
** 19/20 Points- JancisRobinson.com **
** 93 Points- James Suckling **

The 2013 Vintage Port Wine Bioma “Vinha Velha” from Niepoort is a single vineyard Vintage Port wine from aged vines at Vinha da Pisca. Appearance of deep purple accompanied by a purple rim. With time, the wine has gained in colour, but on the aroma the exuberant youthful fruit, so evident after its first winter has closed down, but is very much still present on the palate with dark plums and blackberries with firm grainy tannins on the mid palate giving both structure and power to the wine leading to a grainy but not aggressive finish. Pairs well with chocolate and caramel.


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Price: £139.00
Stock: 10 in Stock

BIOMA Vinha Velha Vintage Port
MAGNUM- presented in Niepoort box
** 19/20 Points- JancisRobinson.com **

The 2013 Vintage Port Wine Bioma “Vinha Velha” from Niepoort is a single vineyard Vintage Port wine from aged vines at Vinha da Pisca. Appearance of deep purple accompanied by a purple rim. With time, the wine has gained in colour, but on the aroma the exuberant youthful fruit, so evident after its first winter has closed down, but is very much still present on the palate with dark plums and blackberries with firm grainy tannins on the mid palate giving both structure and power to the wine leading to a grainy but not aggressive finish. Pairs well with chocolate and caramel.


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Price: £269.00
Stock: 6 in Stock

Quinta do Seixo Vintage Port
IMPERIAL Format 1x600cl

The 2013 Vintage Port Wine from Sandeman is a new Single Quinta Vintage Porto and only the second produced in the company’s history from its home vineyard Quinta do Seixo, in the Cima Corgo. In keeping with Port wine tradition, this wine remained in the Douro Region, at Quinta do Seixo, until the following spring, when it was transported to Sandeman's cellars in Vila Nova de Gaia for maturation in "balseiros". Over its first two years of life the wine was constantly monitored by the wine making team carefully assessing its development before the decision was made to declare it as only the second ever Single Quinta Vintage Port in Sandeman’s long and illustrious history. …
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Price: £450.00
Stock: 1 in Stock

Quinta do Seixo Vintage Port
DOUBLE MAGNUM Format 1x300cl

The 2013 Vintage Port Wine from Sandeman is a new Single Quinta Vintage Porto and only the second produced in the company’s history from its home vineyard Quinta do Seixo, in the Cima Corgo. In keeping with Port wine tradition, this wine remained in the Douro Region, at Quinta do Seixo, until the following spring, when it was transported to Sandeman's cellars in Vila Nova de Gaia for maturation in "balseiros". Over its first two years of life the wine was constantly monitored by the wine making team carefully assessing its development before the decision was made to declare it as only the second ever Single Quinta Vintage Port in Sandeman’s long and illustrious history. …
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Price: £220.00
Stock: 1 in Stock

Quinta do Seixo Vintage Port

The 2013 Vintage Port Wine from Sandeman is only the second produced in the company’s history from its home vineyard Quinta do Seixo, in the Cima Corgo. In keeping with Port wine tradition, this wine remained in the Douro Region, at Quinta do Seixo, until the following spring, when it was transported to Sandeman's cellars in Vila Nova de Gaia for maturation in "balseiros". Over its first two years of life the wine was constantly monitored by the wine making team carefully assessing its development before the decision was made to declare it as only the second ever Single Quinta Vintage Port in Sandeman’s long and illustrious history. …
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Price: £49.95
Stock: 11 in Stock