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Warre Vintage Port
Fonseca Vintage Port
Taylor Vintage Port
Graham Vintage Port
Dows Vintage Port
Churchill Vintage Port
Cockburn Vintage Port
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2007 Vintage Port
2003 Vintage Port
2000 Vintage Port
1997 Vintage Port
1994 Vintage Port
1992 Vintage Port
1991 Vintage Port
1985 Vintage Port
1983 Vintage Port
1980 Vintage Port
1977 Vintage Port
1977 Vintage Port
1970 Vintage Port
1966 Vintage Port
1963 Vintage Port
1960 Vintage Port
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OVER £100
(Normally £6.95)
Welcome to The Vintage Port Shop
The Vintage Port Shop is a specialist retailer of quality vintage port. Our range of vintage port spans over 100 years and includes many rare vintages
A gift of vintage port from a special year makes a unique and thoughtful present for anniversaries, birthdays, christenings, corporate gifts and other special occasions.
- Your vintage port can be sent in a beautiful, silk-lined, presentation box with accessories, tasting notes and a personalised message (see delivery and packaging).
- UK delivery by courier in less than 3 working days.
- Free delivery for orders over 100 pounds
- All of our vintage ports come with a quality guarantee so you can purchase with confidence.
- All vintage ports are described with reviews, a condition report and photographs.
About Vintage Port
Although it accounts for only about two percent of production, vintage port is the flagship wine of all Portugal. Vintage port is made entirely from the grapes of a declared vintage year. Not every year is declared a vintage in the Douro; only those when conditions are favourable to the production of a fine and lasting wine. The decision on whether to declare a vintage is made in the spring of the second year following the harvest. The decision to declare a vintage is made by each individual port house, often referred to as a 'shipper'. Conventional shippers will declare, on average, about three times a decade.
Vintage ports are aged in barrels for a maximum of two and a half years before bottling, and generally require another ten to thirty years of aging in the bottle before reaching what is considered a proper drinking age. Since they are aged in barrels for only a short time, they retain their dark ruby colour and fresh fruit flavours. Particularly fine vintage ports can continue to gain complexity and drink wonderfully for many decades after they were bottled, and therefore can be particularly sought-after and expensive wines.
