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The spectacular Douro valley is one of the world’s most breathtaking vineyard areas.

The Douro’s origins are in Spain (known there as the ‘Duero’) from where it carves its way through Portugal before finally dispersing into the Atlantic Ocean at Oporto.The vine spreads like a rash over 165 kilometres of its slopes, which are sheer enough to make working on them a fatally dangerous experience. This is why a tasting at any one of the hundreds of Quintas is often interrupted by the thunderous echos of dynamite as men try to blast out rock from the hills, paving the way for more workable terraced vineyards.

The prime area of the world’s oldest demarcated wine region (its limits were set in 1756) is known as the Upper Douro, an area east of one the tributaries – the Río Torto. Rainfall is at its lowest and the sun at its strongest here, where the harvest brings in Port’s thickest and sweetest of local grape varieties (these include Touriga Nacional, Tinta Roriz,Touriga Francesca and Tinta Barroca). This is the birth place of Vintage Port, a staggeringly dense fortified wine only released in the best years when Port houses have enough grapes of high quality to pick from their many vineyards or ‘Quintas’. The area is dominated by the big port houses such as Dow’s, Warre’s, Graham’s, Taylor’s, Fonseca and Croft, whose flagship wines are these vintage bottlings.

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Port List

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Found: 82 ports

Col.	Vint.

Wine / Producer

Appellation / Region

Format	Cs.	Btls.	Price	Tax

1985

Cockburn's, Vintage Port

Format			Price	Tax
12x75cl	1	0	£475.00	dp	Buy

2015

Cockburn's, Vintage Port

Format			Price	Tax
6x75cl	10	2	£210.00	ib	Buy

2017

Cockburn's, Vintage Port

Format			Price	Tax
1x2.25L	1	0	£180.00	ib	Buy
6x75cl	7	0	£240.00	ib	Buy

1963

Croft, Vintage Port

Format			Price	Tax
12x75cl	1	0	£1,500.00	dp	Buy
12x75cl	3	0	£1,500.00	ib	Buy

1977

Croft, Vintage Port

Format			Price	Tax
12x75cl	1	0	£800.00	dp	Buy

1985

Croft, Vintage Port

Format			Price	Tax
12x75cl	1	0	£480.00	dp	Buy
12x75cl	2	0	£500.00	dp	Buy
12x75cl	1	0	£525.00	dp	Buy

2003

Croft, Vintage Port

Format			Price	Tax
12x75cl	1	0	£390.00	ib	Buy

2016

Croft, Vintage Port

Format			Price	Tax
6x75cl	10	4	£235.00	ib	Buy

2017

Croft, Vintage Port

Format			Price	Tax
6x75cl	7	0	£240.00	ib	Buy

2017

Croft, Quinta Da Roeda, Serikos, Vintage Port

Format			Price	Tax
3x75cl	4	0	£300.00	ib	Buy

1994

Format			Price	Tax
12x75cl	1	0	£400.00	ib	Buy

1945

Dow's, Vintage Port

Format			Price	Tax
1x75cl	1	0	£900.00	dp	Buy

1985

Dow's, Vintage Port

Format			Price	Tax
12x75cl	1	0	£635.70	dp	Buy

1991

Dow's, Vintage Port

Format			Price	Tax
12x75cl	1	0	£500.00	ib	Buy
12x75cl	0	3	£510.70	dp	Buy

2016

Dow's, Vintage Port

Format			Price	Tax
1x2.25L	3	0	£290.00	ib	Buy
6x75cl	1	0	£310.00	ib	Buy
6x75cl	2	0	£330.00	ib	Buy

2017

Dow's, Vintage Port

Format			Price	Tax
6x75cl	2	0	£330.00	ib	Buy
12x37.5cl	2	0	£338.00	ib	Buy

1992

Fonseca, Vintage Port

Format			Price	Tax
12x75cl	1	0	£695.70	dp	Buy
24x37.5cl	1	0	£735.00	ib	Buy

2000

Fonseca, Vintage Port

Format			Price	Tax
12x75cl	1	0	£420.00	ib	Buy

2007

Fonseca, Vintage Port

Format			Price	Tax
6x75cl	2	0	£245.85	dp	Buy

2016

Fonseca, Vintage Port

Format			Price	Tax
6x75cl	9	0	£300.00	ib	Buy

2017

Fonseca, Vintage Port

Format			Price	Tax
6x75cl	10	0	£320.00	ib	Buy

NV

Fonseca, Crusted Port

Format			Price	Tax
6x75cl	10	0	£68.00	ib	Buy

1983

Format			Price	Tax
12x75cl	1	0	£450.00	dp	Buy

1991

Format			Price	Tax
12x75cl	0	11	£480.00	ib	Buy
12x75cl	1	0	£480.00	dp	Buy

1970

Graham's, Vintage Port

Format			Price	Tax
12x75cl	2	6	£1,635.70	dp	Buy

1977

Graham's, Vintage Port

Format			Price	Tax
12x75cl	1	0	£900.00	dp	Buy

2000

Graham's, Vintage Port

Format			Price	Tax
12x75cl	1	0	£425.00	ib	Buy

2003

Graham's, Vintage Port

Format			Price	Tax
12x75cl	1	0	£465.00	dp	Buy

2007

Graham's, Vintage Port

Format			Price	Tax
12x75cl	1	0	£475.00	ib	Buy

2011

Graham's, Vintage Port

Format			Price	Tax
6x75cl	1	0	£350.00	ib	Buy

2015

Graham's, Stone Terraces, Vintage Port

Format			Price	Tax
3x75cl	7	0	£330.00	ib	Buy

2017

Graham's, Vintage Port

Format			Price	Tax
6x75cl	3	0	£330.00	ib	Buy

NV

Graham's, 20 Year Old Tawny

Format			Price	Tax
6x75cl	6	0	£160.00	ib	Buy

1912

Colheita, Vintage Port

Format			Price	Tax
3x75cl	1	0	£2,558.93	dp	Buy

2017

Format			Price	Tax
1x150cl	10	0	£106.67	ib	Buy

Offley Boa Vista

1966

Offley Boa Vista

Format			Price	Tax
12x75cl	0	6	£1,635.70	dp	Buy

1983

Format			Price	Tax
12x75cl	1	0	£500.00	dp	Buy

Quinta Do Noval

1963

Nacional, Vintage Port

Quinta Do Noval

Format			Price	Tax
1x75cl	1	0	£4,000.00	ib	Buy

1970

Quinta Do Noval, Vintage Port

Quinta Do Noval

Format			Price	Tax
12x75cl	1	0	£1,250.00	dp	Buy

2000

Silval, Vintage Port

Quinta Do Noval

Format			Price	Tax
12x75cl	0	2	£380.00	ib	Buy

2001

Nacional, Vintage Port

Quinta Do Noval

Format			Price	Tax
6x75cl	3	0	£2,400.00	ib	Buy

2005

Quinta do Noval, Silval, Vintage Ruby Port

Quinta Do Noval

Format			Price	Tax
6x75cl	1	2	£150.00	ib	Buy

2005

Colheita, Tawny Port

Quinta Do Noval

Format			Price	Tax
6x75cl	3	0	£195.00	ib	Buy

2011

Quinta Do Noval, Vintage Port

Quinta Do Noval

Format			Price	Tax
6x75cl	1	0	£425.00	ib	Buy

2012

Quinta Do Noval

Format			Price	Tax
6x75cl	10	1	£80.00	ib	Buy

2014

Quinta Do Noval, Vintage Port

Quinta Do Noval

Format			Price	Tax
6x75cl	10	4	£250.00	ib	Buy

2016

Quinta Do Noval, Vintage Port

Quinta Do Noval

Format			Price	Tax
6x75cl	10	5	£330.00	ib	Buy

2017

Quinta Do Noval, Vintage Port

Quinta Do Noval

Format			Price	Tax
6x75cl	10	0	£340.00	ib	Buy

Quinta do Vesuvio

1992

Quinta Do Vesuvio, Vintage Port

Quinta do Vesuvio

Format			Price	Tax
6x75cl	0	1	£225.00	ib	Buy

1997

Quinta Do Vesuvio, Vintage Port, Non OWC

Quinta do Vesuvio

Format			Price	Tax
12x75cl	0	11	£480.00	dp	Buy

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Found: 82 ports

Port Producers

Port became very popular in England after the Methuen Treaty of 1703, when merchants were permitted to import it at a low duty, while war with France deprived English wine drinkers of French wine. As a result of the British involvement in the Portuguese wine trade there are many identifiable household names when it comes to Port producers or "shippers". Company’s like Taylor’s, Dow’s, Graham’s and Cockburn’s are instantly recognisable but over the years Portuguese, as well as Dutch and German owned shippers have also become prevalent in the Port industry.

Portfolio Producers

Quinta Do Noval

Quinta do Vesuvio

Smith Woodhouse

Other Producers

Port Appellations

Less about areas of demarcation (all Port comes from the Douro Valley, in the North of Portugal) and much more about stylistic differences, there are many different kinds of Port. Usually deep, often sweet and always strong, there’s so much to discover – from vintage to tawnies, LBVs to rubies, crusted, white and colheitas, the list goes on and on.

Find out more:

Grape Varieties of Port

Although around forty grape varieties can be used to make Port, most modern vineyards are made up of a selection of five or six top red grape types now generally considered to produce the finest wines. Some other varieties may be added in smaller proportions where dictated by specific growing conditions. The most well-known varietals include Touriga Nacional, Touriga Francesa, Tinta Roriz, Tinta Barroca and Tinta Cão (or Tinto Cão).

Find out more:

Touriga Nacional

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