Everyone is talking about the amazing wine values you can find from Portugal. Well, what are they… exactly? Here is a great overview of everything you need to get started with Portuguese wine.
Red Blend
2019 Quinta Do Noval Port Vintage 2019 Quinta Do Noval Port Vintage Deep ruby red, medium plus, notes from raisin, plum, prune, marzipan, sweet, tannins low, acidity. This 2019 wine features medium minus, strong body with notes from raisins, plum , marzipan, prune, vanilla, long , fresh like a red wine not fortified. Quinta Do [...]
2015 Quinta Do Infantado Port Late Bottled Vintage 2015 Quinta Do Infantado Port Late Bottled Vintage Deep ruby red, medium plus, notes from raisin, plum, prune, marzipan, sweet, tannins low, acidity. This 2015 wine features medium minus, strong body with notes from raisins, plum , marzipan, prune, vanilla, long , fresh like a red wine [...]
2015 Quinta Do Infantado Port Vintage 2015 Quinta Do Infantado Port Vintage A ripe and fruity 2015 wine, showing touches of wood as well as a more rustic character. It is packed with acidity and black currant flavors, at the core firmly tannic. The Vintage Ports of Quinta do Infantado are singularly distinctive in their [...]
2019 Periquita Reserva 2019 Periquita Reserva It is a combination of fruit selection, a longer time in wood and the extra bottle aging that gives this wine its reserva label. With a dense texture and spice and richness from the wood and the juicy black fruits, the wine is developing well and will be ready [...]
2018 Quinta Do Portal Douro Colheita 2018 Quinta Do Portal Douro Colheita Excelente freshness, toasty and appetising in the mouth, with an attractive and elegant finish. It’s a 2018 wine that we can enjoy from now but it will also age a few years very well. Made with a very carefully winemaking, using gravity and [...]
2016 Adega Cartuxa Reserva Evora 2016 Adega Cartuxa Reserva Evora This 2016 wine are elegant, with good structure combing the aromas of the grape varieties used and conferring a persistent and complex flavour. Cartuxa Behind Adega Cartuxa [Cartuxa Winery] is a great family, the Eugénio de Almeida family. Let’s go back to 1913, the year [...]
2020 Soalheiro Alvarinho Primeiras Vinhas 2020 Soalheiro Alvarinho Primeiras Vinhas Citrus colour, elegant and full flavour that grows in the glass, becoming increasingly persistent. The flavour of this 2020 wine is full bodied, fresh and complex with great final complexity. The grapes are produced with the concept of organic viticulture and harvest by hand from [...]
2019 Sandeman Port Quinta Do Seixo 2019 Sandeman Port Quinta Do Seixo An almost opaque deep ruby colour 2019 wine. An aroma of excellent complexity and intensity, with notes of black and red fruit, shrubby tones, spices and hints of balsamic that harmonise perfectly with additional notes of shale/slate. With great volume on the palate, [...]
2018 Herdade Do Esporao Branco Reserva 2018 Herdade Do Esporao Branco Reserva Wood aged and rich, this 2018 wine is a ripe blend of Antão Vaz, Arinto and Roupeiro. The oak rounds out the natural freshness of the blend, softening it while leaving plenty of fine acidity. Ready to drink now. White Wines The white [...]
Taylor Fladgate is one of the oldest of the founding Port houses. It is dedicated entirely to the production of Port wine and in particular to its finest styles.
2020 Anselmo Mendes Alvarinho Contacto 2020 Anselmo Mendes Alvarinho Contacto From the producer’s home region of Monção and Melgaço, this 2020 wine is made, unusually for Vinho Verde, using skin contact. That gives it an extra dimension of richness and fullness. The wine’s apple flavors have concentration and, along with the texture, suggest potential for [...]
2019 Anselmo Mendes Alvarinho Contacto 2019 Anselmo Mendes Alvarinho Contacto From the producer’s home region of Monção and Melgaço, this 2019 wine is made, unusually for Vinho Verde, using skin contact. That gives it an extra dimension of richness and fullness. The wine’s apple flavors have concentration and, along with the texture, suggest potential for [...]
2015 Fonseca Port Late Bottled Vintage 2015 Fonseca Port Late Bottled Vintage, From Douro,Portugal, A dense, opaque wine with classic Fonseca aromas and flavors: dense blackberry and blackcurrant, spice, coffee, cocoa, and prune. Thick, velvety tannins give the wine a voluptuous density on the palate. This wine will develop for decades in the bottle. WE98 Wine [...]
2015 Cockburn Port Late Bottled Vintage 2015 Cockburn Port Late Bottled Vintage A beautifully perfumed Port, this 2015 wine has a fine balance between its structure and the opulent black fruits. There is some sweetness but this is definitely equaled by the wine’s dry edge. Drink this very fine wine now. Cockburn Cockburn’s has always [...]
2016 Quinta Do Crasto Touriga Franca 2016 Quinta Do Crasto Touriga Franca One of a series of single-varietal wines from this producer, this wine celebrates one of the essential grapes of the Douro region. It is a balanced, rich, black-fruit dominated, while also succulent wine. Generous tannins have been softened by the wood aging into [...]
2016 Offley Port Late Bottled Vintage LBV 2016 Offley Port Late Bottled Vintage LBV Dark ruby in color with a red rim, this LBV brings dark chocolate aromas to the foreground, along with fruits of the forest and a spicy character. It offers medium weight on the palate with firm structure and acidity providing superb [...]
2018 Quinta Dos Murcas Minas 2018 Quinta Dos Murcas Minas Earthy aromas lead into the palate of this 2018 dry wine from the Douro estate owned by Herdade do Esporão. It is balanced with juicy red fruits, soft tannins and the mineral structure that will allow the wine to age further. Esporão We only exist if [...]
2013 Quinta Dos Murcas Reserva 2013 Quinta Dos Murcas Reserva Aroma of great complexity and elegance, the result of its evolution in the bottle. Dominated by ripe black fruits, balsamic aromas, such as rockrose, and spicy notes, from its aging in barrel. Firm and concentrated, with a present and balanced acidity, it has ripe tannins [...]
2016 Quinta Da Alorna Grande Reserva Marquesa De Alorna 2016 Quinta Da Alorna Grande Reserva Marquesa De Alorna Taste wine buttery, fresh, with good structure and a long, smooth finish. Complex aroma of wine is filled with tones of ripe yellow fruit, peaches, medlar and floral nuances. Complement the bouquet of discreet shades of vanilla [...]
2015 Sandeman Port Late Bottled Vintage 2015 Sandeman Port Late Bottled Vintage; Douro, Portugal The highest quality wines from the 2015 harvest were carefully selected and blended to create Sandeman’s 2015 Late Bottled Vintage Porto. Aged for around four years, this wine was bottled without filtration, in the accustomed manner for a single harvest wine. [...]
2020 Quinta Nova Portugal Douro Rosé 2020 Quinta Nova Portugal Douro Rosé is a very aromatic Rosé wine from the Douro region dominated by aromas of berries, such as raspberries, currants and strawberry fragrances. It has a very firm structure and a magnificent acidity. Quinta Nova Rosé is produced with red grapes from old vines of [...]
Cossart Gordon Bual Rainwater Madeira 5yr Cossart Gordon Bual Rainwater Madeira 5yr Tinta Negra Mole is a dark-skinned wine grape best known as the dominant grape of Madeira, even if few of the Portuguese island’s wine producers are keen to promote this fact. It accounts for roughly 70 percent of vine plants on Madeira. The variety rose [...]
Cossart Gordon Bual Madeira Medium Rich 10Yr Cossart Gordon Bual Madeira Medium Rich 10Yr, Dessert and Fortified Wine Madeira from Portugal Grape Varieties: Bual Vinification:Cossart Gordon 10 yr Bual underwent fermentation off the skins with natural yeast at between 18°C – 21°C in temperature controlled stainless steel tanks. After approximately 3 days, fortification with grape [...]
Cossart Gordon Bual Madeira Portugal Rich 15YR 500ML Cossart Gordon Bual Madeira Portugal Rich 15YR 500ML, Madeira, Portugal Clear, amber colour with a golden green highlights. Lovely complex aroma of dried fruits (figs and almonds) and warm wood tones with a touch of vanilla. Mellow fruit with a solid backbone that provides a warm and [...]
2018 Broadbent Douro Reserve 2018 Broadbent Douro Reserve The wine is dark purple in color with an electric pink rim and slight staining of the tears. On the nose, the wine has notes of ripe dark cherry, blackberry, black plum, orange rind with clove, blueberry preserve, violets, and forest notes. On the palate the wine [...]
2015 Dow’s Port Late Bottled Vintage 2015 Dow’s Port Late Bottled Vintage This 2015 Late Bottled Vintage (LBV) shares the same provenance with Dow’s legendary Vintage Ports, namely the Quinta do Bomfim and Quinta da Senhora da Ribeira vineyards, which have been owned by Dow’s since the late 19th century. Five generations of Symington family [...]
2014 Graham’s Port Late Bottled Vintage 2014 Graham’s Port Late Bottled Vintage Perfumed and elegant, following the Graham house style, this is a balanced Port. It is poised between sweetness and a core of dryness both from tannins and restrained fruitiness. Being a Late Bottled Vintage, 2014 it can be drunk now, although it is [...]
2016 Quinta Do Crasto Touriga Nacional 2016 Quinta Do Crasto Touriga Nacional Deep purple in colour. The nose shows elegant notes of violet with delicate hints of fresh spice and wild berry fruit. Well-balanced on the palate, evolving into a wine of excellent volume, with fine-textured tannins and aromas of violet. The finish is fresh [...]