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.
Sweet · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative
A single-harvest tawny in the Burmester house style, concentrated with dried fruit and nutty wood-aged complexity.
Sweet · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative
A plush, approachably fruited Vintage Port from one of the oldest Port houses, built around the Quinta da Roeda estate.
Dow's Colheita
4.5
Sweet · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative
A single-harvest tawny matured for many years in cask, showing concentrated dried fruit and complex wood-aged spice from one declared year.
Sweet · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative
A single-quinta Vintage Port from the Symington home estate at Pinhao, made in years Dow's does not declare a classic Vintage, in the drier Dow's house style.
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
A structured Vintage Port from Portugal's most historic native house, with concentrated dark fruit and a firm ageing spine.
Sweet · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative
A single-quinta Vintage Port from Fonseca's source estate in the Tavora valley, declared in off years, with the house's opulent black fruit and minty lift.
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 · Contemplative
A concentrated thirty-year tawny with intense dried fruit, toffee and complex spiced wood.
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.
Off Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative
A rare aged white Port, ten years in cask giving honeyed nutty depth and a gently oxidative, lingering finish.
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 · Medium acidity · Contemplative
A well-priced single-quinta Vintage Port from this family producer at Sao Joao da Pesqueira, with black fruit and a firm structure.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Contemplative
Quinta Nova's top old-vine red, dense and mineral with cedar and graphite, made only in the best years.
Sweet · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative
A single-quinta Vintage Port from the Pacheca estate, with black fruit and a firm structure for ageing.
Sweet · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative
A fresh single-quinta Vintage Port from the riverside La Rosa estate, with black fruit and a firm structure.
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
A single-quinta Vintage Port from the Crasto estate, fresh and structured with concentrated black fruit.
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 · Contemplative
A single-quinta Vintage Port from Sandeman's flagship Cima Corgo estate at Valenca do Douro, concentrated and structured for ageing.
Sweet · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative
An organic single-quinta Vintage Port from the Tedo-Douro confluence, with black fruit and a firm ageing structure.
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.
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 · Contemplative
A deeply concentrated thirty-year tawny with intense dried fruit, toffee and a complex spiced wood character.
Sweet · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative
An intensely complex forty-year tawny, the dried fruit reduced to concentrated marmalade with layers of nut, spice and aged wood.
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 · Contemplative
A single-quinta Vintage Port from the Vista Alegre estate near Pinhao, with black fruit and a firm structure.
Sweet · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative
A rare old tawny from five generations of cask reserves (5G), intensely concentrated with dried fruit and wood-aged complexity.
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.