Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Contemplative
A prestigious old-vine red from a once-abandoned terraced vineyard, dense and mineral with graphite and savoury spice, built for long ageing.
Cuvées
Barca Velha
5.0
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Contemplative
Portugal's most iconic dry red, made only in exceptional years from Douro Superior fruit: a structured, ageworthy wine with cedar, tobacco and a long mineral finish.
Chryseia
4.7
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Elegant
A refined, Bordeaux-influenced Douro red from the Symington and Prats partnership: silky and polished, prizing elegance and freshness over power.
Sweet · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative
The driest of the classic Vintage Ports, built around Quinta do Bomfim and Senhora da Ribeira fruit, with a firm structure and a notably dry, savoury finish.
Sweet · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative
Fonseca's Vintage is the lush, exotically fruited counterpoint to Taylor's: opulent black fruit and a perfumed minty lift over firm structure.
Sweet · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Elegant
A fine, complex twenty-year tawny balancing honeyed dried fruit, nuts and a long spiced finish, regularly among the top-rated of its class.
Sweet · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative
The richest and sweetest of the classic Vintage Ports, built on the warm Malvedos and Tua fruit, with opulent black fruit over a firm spine.
Kopke Colheita
4.7
Sweet · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative
The reference Colheita: a single-harvest tawny aged for many years in cask, intensely concentrated with dried fruit, nuts and candied citrus, released with its vintage on the label.
Niepoort Batuta
4.7
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Contemplative
Niepoort's flagship old-vine Douro red, from very old field-blend vineyards: concentrated yet fresh, with graphite minerality and fine-grained structure for long ageing.
Sweet · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative
A celebrated single-harvest tawny, Niepoort holding some of the oldest Colheita reserves in the Douro, intensely concentrated with dried fruit and candied citrus.
Sweet · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Elegant
A classic, fresh-styled Vintage Port from this artisan family house, with pure black fruit, fine tannins and a notably fresh, lifted structure.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Bold
A benchmark old-vine field-blend Douro red, ripe yet structured, balancing dark fruit and savoury spice with the estate's signature freshness and ageability.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Contemplative
A single-vineyard old-vine field blend from a plot of pre-1920 vines, dense and structured yet fresh, with graphite minerality and a long savoury finish built for the cellar.
Sweet · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative
One of the rarest and most legendary wines in the world, from a tiny block of ungrafted, pre-phylloxera vines, declared only in exceptional years and capable of ageing for generations.
Sweet · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Elegant
A pure, elegant single-quinta Vintage Port from the famous Pinhao estate, with fine tannins and graphite-edged black fruit built to age.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Contemplative
One of Portugal's most sought-after dry reds, from the historic Douro Superior estate where Barca Velha was born: powerful yet refined, with cedar, graphite and a long structured finish.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Bold
Vallado's flagship old-vine Douro red, named for Dona Antonia Adelaide Ferreira: concentrated and structured yet fresh, from low-yielding old vines.
Sweet · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative
A powerful single-quinta Vintage Port from the grand Douro Superior estate, foot-trodden in granite lagares, with dense black fruit and a mineral, ageworthy structure.
Sweet · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative
A structured Vintage Port from one of the most recognised Port houses, with concentrated black fruit and a firm spine for ageing.
Sweet · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Elegant
Taylor's signature aged tawny: a fine balance of dried-fruit concentration, mellow nuttiness and a long spiced finish, widely cited as the benchmark twenty-year style.
Sweet · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative
Taylor's declared Vintage is the firm, structured benchmark of the style: dense black-fruit concentration over grippy tannins built for decades in bottle.
Sweet · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Elegant
The most elegant and floral of the Symington Vintages, built on Quinta da Cavadinha fruit, with fine tannins and a fresh, perfumed character.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Contemplative
The wine that launched Wine & Soul, from a tiny plot of ancient field-blend vines at Vale de Mendiz: dense and mineral yet fresh, a benchmark of the modern Douro.