2015 Wine and Port Vintage
Vintage Summary and Recommendations: 
Welcome to Vintage Wine and Port's 2015 wine page. Read on for our summary of the 2015 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!
Overall, 2015 was a blinder of a vintage, especially for the classics. There are plenty of options for both drinking now or for cellaring later, so take your pick. Europe had an intensely hot summer and many regions were affected by drought, but luck seemed to be mostly on the growers’ side as the majority pulled through, delivering stunning wines. Any of these wines would make a fabulous 10 year old wine gift for an Anniversary or birthday.
Our Wine Expert currently recommends the following wines for this year:
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Italian: In Piemonte an exceptional vintage was produced,with great promise thanks to healthy grapes and exceptionally regular bunches. In Tuscany, a cold and rainy winter preceded an irregular spring followed by exceptionally hot, dry summer weather, creating small bunches of Sangiovese, so yields were down across the region however concentration levels concentration levels are very good.
Portugal: Abundant rainfall marked the start of the viticultural year, replenishing depleted soil water reserves. This was to prove crucial due to the very dry winter, spring and summer that followed which was the hottest and driest of the last 36 years. It was the hottest June of the last half-century resulting in exceptionally low yields at harvest time. The conditions leading up to the harvest were excellent and a little late rain followed by sunshine just before picking offset some of the heat stress to produce some of the best grapes in memory (particularly Touriga Franca). The vintage was exceptional but held back from declaration.
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Vietti, 2015
Vietti - Ravera, Piedmont ***96 Points- Robert Parker's Wine Advocate***
Grapes: 100% Nebbiolo
Winemaking: The grapes are selected from the single vineyard Ravera in Novello, planted with roughly 4500 units per hectare. The vines have an average age of 26 years with the oldest part planted in 1935. The roughly 3-hectare vineyard has a south-west exposure and a clay-limestone soil. Grapes are gently crushed and fermented for 4 weeks in stainless steel tank with skin contact. This time includes pre- and post- fermentative maceration with the traditional method of submerged cap. Malolactic is done in casks that will continue until late spring. The wine spends over a year on fine lees without racking it. …
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Price: £195.00
Stock: 4 in Stock
Vietti, 2015
Vietti - Lazzarito, Piedmont ***17/20 Points- JancisRobinson.com*** ***96 Points- RobertParker.com***
Grapes: 100% Nebbiolo
Winemaking: The grapes are selected from the single vineyard Lazzarito in Serralunga d’Alba, planted with roughly 4500 units per hectare. The vines have an average age of 36 years. The 2-hectare vineyard has a south-west exposure and a clay-limestone soil. Grapes are gently crushed and fermented for 4 weeks in stainless steel tank with skin contact. This time includes pre- and post- fermentative maceration with the traditional method of submerged cap. Malolactic is done in oak.
Aging: The wine is aged for approximately 30 months between French oak barriques and Slovenian oak casks
Description: Deep garnet red in color. …
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Price: £189.00
Stock: 8 in Stock
Cockburn Port, 2015
Vintage Port, Douro
This 2015 Vintage Port Wine is only the second Cockburn’s Vintage Port made by the Symington family since it acquired the brand name from Beam in 2010, having bought the vineyards and cellars in 2006. Its declaration of a 2015 Vintage Port is the latest in a number of innovations and investment to mark the company’s bicentenary, with the brand having been founded in 1815. Up until the 1950's Cockburn’s was one of the Douro’s leading Port producers, with its Ports commanding some of the highest prices at international wine auctions. However its rapid expansion into the mass market in the second half of the century served to damage its reputation for fine wines. …
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Price: £62.95
Stock: Out of Stock
Graham's Port, 2015
Late Bottled Vintage Port, DOC Douro
Includes Gift Tube
***95 Points- Gold- IWC 2023***
***Bronze Medal- IWSC 2023***
The 2015 Graham LBV has a very deep purple in colour with an intense garnet edge. The wine offers enticing aromas of red and black fruits with some lovely mint and eucalyptus notes. It is generous on the palate, with Graham’s typical opulence, revealing delicious blackberry fruit underscored by ripe, polished tannins, which give the wine great freshness and vitality. The finish reveals Graham’s signature complexity and elegance in equal measure. A superb wine, selected from the finest production of a very good year.
Late Bottled Vintage Port is matured in a seasoned oak barrel and then bottled at between four and six years of age, whereas Vintage Port spends two years in casks and then matures in bottle. …
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Price: £15.95
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Niepoort Port, 2015
Vintage Port, Douro BIOMA Vinha Velha- Half Bottle ***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: £85.00
Stock: Out of Stock
Niepoort Port
10 year old Tawny Bottled in 1979
A 10-Year Tawny Port from Niepoort bottled in 1979 with amber colour and aromas and flavours of fruits like figs, raisins, and dates, intermingled with caramel, toffee, and nuts. Layers of spice, toffee, and a touch of vanilla from the aging process, with a long and warming finish.
Serving Suggestions
Best served slightly chilled 12–16°C. Pairs beautifully with desserts like almond tart, crème brûlée, or blue cheese.
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Price: £55.00
Stock: Out of Stock
Taylor Fladgate, 2015
Quinta de Vargellas Vintage Port
9 Litre Salmanzar , RARE BOTTLE FORMAT
92 Points- Silver- Decanter 2024
Please Allow 7 Days For Delivery
The Taylor's Vargellas Vintage Port 2015 is a prestigious wine from one of the most renowned producers in the Douro Valley. Known for its exceptional quality and longevity, this terroir driven vintage port is crafted from grapes exclusively grown on the Quinta de Vargellas estate.
Managing Director Adrian Bridge commented on this release; "The 2015 harvest has produced an excellent Quinta de Vargellas Vintage Port, showing all the balance and elegance that are the hallmarks of the property. Although the 2015’s are already expressive and appealing on the nose, they also have the structure and completeness to allow them to hold up extremely well in bottle. …
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Price: £895.00
Stock: Out of Stock