Portugal Region Report

Vintage Port, Douro
***93 Points Wine Enthusiast***

93 Points Wine Enthusiast
"As ever, Vesuvio is packed with its generous, opulent ripe fruit, showing richness, dense flavors, layers of jam and sweetness with a hint of caramel flavors. This is a Port for indulgence, ripe, rich and packed with flavor."

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Price: £69.95
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Colheita Port in Gift Tube
92 Points - Wine Spectator

Exclusive to Vintage Wine and Port, this fine 2007 Colheita port from the iconic producer Quinta das Carvalhas makes a great celebratory drink for a special occasion or anniversary.

Tasting Notes
Deep amber in colour, with rich aromas of dried fruits, nuts, caramel, and subtle spices, often with a touch of vanilla and honey. On the palate it is smooth and well-rounded, with flavours of figs, raisins, nuts, toffee, and a hint of citrus zest. The oak aging imparts a mellow, velvety texture. It finishes with a long and elegant aftertaste, with a balanced sweetness and a hint of spice. …
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Price: £39.95
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Vintage Port
***96/100- Wine journal***
***94/100- Wine Advocate***

96/100 (Outstanding) Wine journal
94/100 (Outstanding) Wine Advocate

Reviews: "The 2007 Fonseca Vintage Port is opaque purple-colored with a high-class perfume of lavender, Asian spices, pencil lead, incense, and an amalgam of black fruits. On the palate it is voluminous with layered, succulent fruit, outstanding density, and excellent integration of tannin, acidity, and alcohol. The long finish and the wine’s impeccable balance suggest a lengthy evolution and a drinking window extending out to 2045. " Jay Miller, Wine Advocate.

"The nose is quintessential Fonseca, like a riotous party reaching its crescendo in the glass. …
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Price: £89.00
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Quinta Das Cavadinha Vintage Port in presentation box

A 2006 vintage port wine. Warre’s Quinta da Cavadinha is one of the finest vineyard estates in the Douro and produces outstanding wines that are used to make Warre’s Classic Vintage Port.

Tasting Note: Very dark, almost opaque, in colour, with intense black fruit aromas, this wine is both compact and mouth-filling but at the same time, smooth and elegant. Irresistible now but with a long life ahead. of it.

In non-declared years the best of the estate’s wines are bottled as single quinta Vintage Port. These wines share the same characteristic Warre’s style, with fine elegance and lifted floral aromas, but more closely reflect the unique characteristics of the Cavadinha vineyard. …
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Price: £35.95
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20 Year Old Tawny Port in Gift Tube
95 Points - Gold - Decanter

The Burmester 20 Year Old Tawny Portis a distinguished and complex wine, reflecting two decades of meticulous aging.

Tasting Note:
The Burmester 20 Year Old Tawny Port is a deep amber with mahogany hues, indicating significant aging. Its aroma is rich and complex, with dried fruits, toffee, caramel, honey, roasted nuts, and subtle spice. On the palate, it is smooth and velvety, with hints of dried fruit, butterscotch, brown sugar, molasses, toasted walnuts, almonds, dark chocolate, coffee, and orange peel. The wine's acidity is well-balanced, providing freshness and a lasting impression. …
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Price: £46.95
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Colheita Port

The Messias colheita port wine from the good 2004 vintage comes from a unique category of port wines that are made from a single vintage and aged in oak barrels for a minimum of seven years before bottling. Unlike Tawny Ports, which are blends of multiple vintages, Colheita Ports reflect the characteristics of a specific year, much like Vintage Ports, but they are aged longer in wood, leading to a more complex flavour profile.

Tasting notes:
Beautiful straw colour. Young, fruity fresh aromas that evolve over time, giving rise to a bouquet that brings out the aromas of dried fruits, aromas of roasting, wood and spices. …
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Vintage Port

The 2004 Hooper's Vintage Port is a fortified wine from Portugal's Douro Valley, produced by Hooper's, a brand with a history dating back to 1771.

Flavor Profile: This vintage is crafted primarily from traditional grape varieties such as Touriga Nacional, Tinta Roriz, and Touriga Francesa, sourced from vines over 100 years old. The wine presents a deep color with violet undertones. On the nose, it offers aromas of oak and maple syrup, reflecting its aging process. The palate is rich with flavors of dried fruits like prunes and raisins, complemented by notes of dark plums.

Serving Suggestions: For optimal enjoyment, …
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Colheita Port
Silver Medal, Decanter 2022

A 2003 vintage Colheita Port Wine from Kopke Port. The 2003 Kopke Single Harvest has an intense red colour with a tawny halo. Presents a complex bouquet of dried fruits, standing-out the spicy notes. Sophisticated and delicate in taste. Good structure, well-balanced acidity and a pleasant unctuousness. Long and persistent finish.

Enjoy this exemplary port lightly chilled with fruity desserts like tarte tatin, creme brulée or Christmas pudding, even rich chocolate mousse. The classic pairing of Stilton cheese is also excellent, as are ripe tropical fruits.

Kopke Port is the oldest port house. …
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Vintage Port

A 2003 vintage Port Wine from Croft Port. A medium intensity Port with a garnet core and mahogany rim. A lovely pronounced nose of figs and prunes, with some walnut characters. Also slightly earthy. Good sweet fruit on the palate and a full mouth feel. This is followed by a long, smooth nutty finish. After a 40-year absence, the 2003 Croft was made by the use of traditional treading in stone Lagers. The 2003 reflects the benefits of two years of strict vineyard management with gloriously pure fruit and scents of wild blueberry and crême de more. The purity and expression of fruit persists on the palate, supported by dense but very svelte tannins, culminating in a long finish. …
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Vintage Port

An outstanding 2003 vintage Port Wine from Dow's Port.
Reviews:
"The complex aromatics of the opaque, black-colored 2003 Dow Vintage Port display chocolate, dried oak, black cherries, blackberries, copious spices, and a myriad flowers. This fresh, backward wine offers a medium to full-bodied, deeply concentrated core of spice-laced dark fruits. Softly-textured and seductive in the mid-palate, it boasts abundant layers of candied Damson plums, blueberries, black cherries, molasses, and hints of chocolate before revealing its firm structure. Extremely youthful and primary, this exceptional effort demands patience. …
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Colheita Port

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.

Review:
Port begins as a deep, dark, rich-tasting wine that with the aging progresses. Colheita Port is a special old tawny port from a vintage year. Tasting Note The longer maturation in oak casks, this port a mild flavor and is very spicy and round. Wine and food elegant aroma and exquisite taste are the best advantage with different types of cheese, walnuts and dried apricots. …
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Vintage Port

The 2001 Quinta do Vesuvio is a very dark ruby colour. The Touriga Nacional’s tiny yields brought great concentration to the wine, while the Touriga Franca, due to the good weather during the harvest, achieved perfect ripening, creating wines of great elegance. The Tinta Barroca was very ripe at the time of picking, with a higher than average baumé, producing wines of excellent structure and ageing potential. The old plantings of Tinta Roriz had lower than normal yields in 2001, giving wines with a typical concentration of berry fruit aromas.
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Vintage Port

The 2000 Fonseca Vintage Port is a benchmark declaration from one of the Douro’s most opulent houses, combining richness, aromatic lift and serious longevity. A superb choice for collectors and enthusiasts alike. Drink now or cellar for further complexity – ideal from now through 2055/2060+.

Tasting Notes:
Opaque garnet-purple with classic Fonseca aromatics: blackberry and black cherry, plum compote, violet and rose petal, mint/eucalyptus, liquorice and cocoa. The palate is full-bodied and layered, with dark fruit, spice and chocolate framed by ripe, polished tannins. Excellent concentration, balanced sweetness and vibrant acidity drive a long, beautifully woven finish. …
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Vintage Port
***98 Points- Wine Advocate***

98 Points (Parker)
98 Points (Wine Journal)

Reviews: "Among the most saturated blue/purple/black-colored examples of the vintage, Taylor's 2000 tastes like a young vintage of Chateau Latour on steroids. Aromas of graphite, blackberry liqueur, creme de cassis and smoke jump from the glass. Spectacularly concentrated and enormously endowed, with sweetness allied to ripe tannin, decent acidity, and layer upon layer of fruit and extract, this is the leading candidate for the port of the vintage. Anticipated maturity: 2010-2040." Parker, Wine Advocate 2002.

"An opaque black/purple hue. The nose has certainly shut down since tasted a couple of years ago. …
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Vau Vintage, Douro
Last One- Special Offer £35

The 1999 Sandman Vau Vintage Port is deep red, opaque and inky with intense, fresh red fruit aromas. In the mouth it has rich plummy flavours with hints of strawberry supported by firm tannins giving a firm backbone and which will allow it to age superbly over several years. It is a superb match for desserts and mince pies.

Production method
Fermentation in stainless steel vats and in presses under controlled temperature, arrested through the addition of grape alcohol. Matured for 2 years in large used oak vats, bottled in 2nd year after harvest and aged in bottle since. Both dates appear on label. …
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Quinta de Terra Feita Vintage Port

Quinta de Terra Feita's vines have been supplying Taylor Fladgate with the highest quality grapes for over a hundred years.

This famous old estate is one of the most substantial properties in, what is considered by many, to be the finest wine producing area of the Upper Douro. The Quinta is situated on the western slopes of the Pinhao River Valley. With over 61 hectares under vine it produces 1,300 hectoliters of port wine.

The wines of Terra Feita are all produced in traditional granite lagares on the property. This ancient method still produces the best quality wine; the gentle action of the foot carefully extracts the maximum colour, fruit and tannins from the wine. …
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Malvedos Single Quinta Vintage port

The Graham`s Malvedos 1998 is a single ‘quinta’ vintage Port, it is made exclusively from grapes grown at Grahams, Quinta dos Malvedos estate. In the heart of the Douro Valley,
Quinta dos Malvedos has been the principal estate of Grahams port since 1890 and has been the cornerstone of their Vintage Ports ever since. Located between the Cima Corgo and Douro Superior regions, Malvedos enjoys the best of both regions: abundant sunshine and reasonable rainfall.


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Vintage Port, Douro

Vintage Report:
After a mild June, July and August were hot and dry, leading to good even maturation, with the Tinta Barroca looking particularly promising. Maturation studies carried out between 19th August and the beginning of the vintage, determined the following picking order at Vesuvio: Old vineyards; Tinta Barroca; Tinta Amarela; Tinta Roriz; Touriga Nacional; Tinto Cão; and Touriga Franca. Picking began on the 21nd September and continued until 4th October; great care being taken to select and vinify the very best fruit separately, once perfect ripeness had been achieved. Grape quality was very good with average sugar readings an excellent 12o-13o Baumé. …
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Nacional Vintage Port, Douro

Quinta do Noval is a much-venerated name in the Douro Valley and Nacional is undoubtedly one of the most legendary fortified wines in the world. It is produced from a small area at the heart of the Quinta do Noval vineyard planted with ungrafted vines that have remained untouched by Phylloxera and has an average production of between 250 and 275 cases. 1997 was widely considered to be an exceptional vintage for Ports of fabulous harmony and incredible structure.

1997 was the follow-up to the sublime 1994 and somewhat incredibly managed to ascend to even greater heights. A benchmark Nacional that will bring several decades of drinking pleasure. …
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Colheita Port in Gift Box

Quevedo 1995 Colheita,
Drawn from a single 1995 harvest and matured for decades in seasoned oak, this Quevedo Colheita captures the silken depth only time can give. It bridges richness and finesse beautifully: a ready-to-drink tawny with the poise of long cask ageing and the charm of a great vintage year.

Tasting Profile — Warm, Nutty, Citrus-Laced
Amber-tawny in the glass with a mahogany rim. Aromas of dried fig, apricot and orange peel unfold into toffee, toasted almond and a whisper of vanilla and cinnamon. The palate is plush yet lifted, carrying caramelised citrus, sultana and roasted nuts; bright Douro acidity keeps it lively, and the finish lingers long with nutty, cocoa-tinged warmth. …
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Garrafeira Port
9cl Bottle Last of Stock - when it's gone, it's gone!

Please note that these are 9cl bottles (approximately one-eigth of a regular bottle).

The 1994 Quevedo Garrafeira Port is a rare and fascinating example of a traditional Portuguese style that bridges the gap between Vintage and Tawny Port. Crafted from a single harvest, it spent several years maturing in wood before being transferred to glass demijohns—where it aged slowly over decades, developing complex tertiary aromas and a distinctive freshness. Unlike Colheita Ports, which evolve in cask, Garrafeira Ports benefit from bottle-aging in glass, yielding a wine with purity of fruit, subtle oxidation, and unique character. …
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Price: £15.00
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Vintage Port
*** 97 Points - Parker ***

A 1994 Fonseca Vintage Port is a highly esteemed wine. The consensus among critics that the 1994 Fonseca Vintage Port is a remarkable wine, possessing the depth, complexity, and aging potential characteristic of a top-tier Vintage Port from an outstanding vintage.

Tasting notes
This astounding port is a deep, opaque ruby color with hints of garnet at the rim. It has complex aromas of blackberry, plum, and dark cherry, cocoa, vanilla, and exotic spices. The palate is full-bodied and rich, with ripe black fruits dominating, layers of dark chocolate, espresso, and baking spices adding depth. …
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Price: £139.00
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Vintage Port

If you have a bottle of 1994 Gould Campbell Vintage Port, you possess a fine example of vintage port from an outstanding year. Enjoy it now for a sophisticated tasting experience or hold onto it for further aging to see how it continues to evolve.

Tasting Notes
This port wine shows a deep ruby colour with hints of garnet, with complex aromas of blackberries, dark cherries, plums, figs, spices, chocolate, and mint. Its full-bodied taste is rich, intense, and complemented by chocolate, licorice, and spice. Its long and persistent finish indicates great aging potential.

Serving and Food pairing
Vintage Ports are best served slightly below modern room temperature: 16° to 18° C. …
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Vintage Port
Special Library Release
***95 Points- Wine Advocate***

Symington Family Estates. are delighted to announce the Library Release of the iconic 1994 Graham’s, Dow's and Warre’s Vintage Ports.

The 1994 Vintage Ports are considered to be some of the finest Vintage Ports produced in the second half of the twentieth century. After 25 years ageing in perfect conditions in the Symington cellars, in Vila Nova de Gaia, these wines have developed a wonderful maturity. The The Graham’s is rich and complex with a beautiful elegance. These wines have a bright acidity indicating a long life ahead of them. Each bottle also has the wording ‘Matured in our Cellars’ indicated on the label to confirm its impeccable provenance. …
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Price: £179.00
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Quarles Harris Vintage Port

The 1994 Quarles Harris is a wine that exemplifies the quality and tradition of Port production. It's a wine that offers both immediate pleasure and the potential for further aging, reflecting the best of what the Douro Valley can produce.

Tasting Notes The 1994 Quarles Harris has a delicious smooth, plump and juicy, blackberry fruit flavour, with just a hint of spice A strong, almost earthyness to the palate holds the blackberry fruit, with good ripe tannins, which lingers and improves. The richness of the berry fruit leads to a vibrant and solid finish.

Serving and Food pairing
Vintage Port is best served slightly below room temperature, around 16-18C. …
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Price: £79.00
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