97 JS / 97 WS / 94 VM / 94 WA Extremely perfumed with dark-berry and currant aromas. Hints of earth and spices. Full-bodied, round and medium sweet. Hints of resin. Opulent yet restrained. Shows ripe and beautiful fruit...
94 WA / 92 JS Pale brick colour with fragrant scents of mossy wood, potpourri, cinnamon and dried mulberry plus a whiff of espresso. A mature, well balanced Port comes through in the mouth with high acidity cutting through...
99 JS / 95 DE Ex-Library Bottles. Shows the intense ripeness of the vintage with hints of raisins and other dried fruits. Full-bodied, medium sweet and so very velvety. A big mouthful. Superb. Just starting to open.-James...
98 VM / 98 JS / 97 DE / 96 WS / 94-96 WA / 18 JR The 2017 Dow’s Vintage Port showed a slight reduction and required more time to really open in the glass. Typical of Dow’s it has a more backward and...
98 WS / 98 DE / 96 WA / 18.5 JR Photos available upon request. Read our FAQ on old port labels.A grand slam. Deep ruby with a slightly red edge, intense black cherry and raspberry nose, full-bodied, with masses of...
98 RP / 96 WS / 95 WA "One of my favorite vintage ports - the 1970 Fonseca - a great port in full maturity, but capable of lasting another 25-30 years.” - Robert Parker, Wine Advocate Hedonist’s Gazette, 98...
95 WS / 94 WA This is gorgeously vibrant and grapey, with good cut to the luscious dark fruit and cedar flavors that are flanked by zesty acidity and tannins. A touch brooding midpalate, with a minerally rush and a finish...
98 JS / 97 WA / 97 WS / 97 DE / 96 VM / 17.5+ JR Lots of ripe fruit here with raisins and wet earth that turn to violets and hot stones. Full-bodied, tannic and powerful with fantastic grip and intensity. Grabs...
98 WA / 98 WE / 97 WS / 95 VM / 95 JS / 95 DE / 17.5 JR The 2017 Vintage Port, not quite bottled when originally seen, has now been in bottle for a couple of years. It is a field blend (with typical grapes like Touriga...
100 JS This is in total balance now with such harmony. What amazing aromas of berry and flowers. Full and sweet, the tannins are complete dissolved. The fruit is perfect. This goes on for minutes. Drink now. But it will go...
100 WS / 98 DE / 97 RP #1 Wine Spectator Top 100 Wines of 1997 This stock was released in 2021 directly from Fonseca’s cellars. Hold on to your hat. This is the best Fonseca since 1977, and it's probably even better...
19 JR / 94 JS / 93 RP First vintage made by the Syms – a vintage that effectively paid for the purchase of Graham's. A wine with a particularly interesting history. The Portuguese revolution broke out just after this...
93 RP / 18.5 JR Graham is another great port house, producing one of the deepest-colored and sweetest styles of vintage port. Along with Taylor and Fonseca, Graham has probably been the most consistent producer of great...
96+ VM / 96 WS / 95-97 WA / 96 JS Bright, deep, saturated ruby. Liqueur-like ripeness to the deeply fruity aromas of kirsch, black raspberry and cassis. Thick, sweet and seamless, with a silky texture and great depth to its...
99 JS / 98 WS / 98 DE / 96 VM / 17.5+ JR #27 James Suckling's Top 100 Wines of 2018 Extremely complex aromas that show the classic Graham character of black-fruit marmalade and burnt oranges. Follows through to a full body...
98 JS / 98 WS / 97 DE / 97 WA / 18 JR Take an additional 7% off when you buy 6 or more 2016 and/or 2017 Quinta Do Noval. Discount shown in your cart. This is a superb baby Noval that reminds me of the 1966. Chewy...
98 WS / 98 DE / 97 VM / 97 JS / 97 WA / 96 DE / 17.5 JR #53 Wine Spectator Top 100 2019Take an additional 7% off when you buy 6 or more 2017 and/or 2016 Quinta Do Noval. Discount shown in your cart. This is...
97 WA / 97 NM The 2004 Vintage Port "Nacional" is a declared Vintage Port aged for 18 months in wooden casks. An old vines field blend, it comes in at just 79 grams per liter of residual sugar, rather dry on paper and in...
97 WS / 96 WA / 95 DE / 94 JS / 18 JR Densely packed and dark in profile, with lots of warmed fig, mulled blueberry, açai berry and blackberry paste flavors rolling through, scored with graphite and tar notes,...
97 WS / 96 DE / 96 JS / 17+ JR Expressive, with a wave of pure creamed plum, blackberry and blueberry fruit gliding through atop enticing anise and milk chocolate notes. Velvety, caressing finish makes it hard to see the...
96 WS / 96 JS / 95 DE / 17.5 JR #66 Wine Spectator Top 100 2022 This is really vivid, with a beautiful range of cassis, cherry purée, boysenberry coulis and plum reduction notes unfurling across the palate while...
93 WS /16.5 JR Very impressive for its brute strength. Very deep, dark ruby, with a concentrated cassis nose, full-bodied, rich, powerful and nd oveoverflowing with fruit flavors and hard tannins. - Wine Spectator This...
97 WS / 96 RP / 95 WA / 18.5 JR Good ruby color still. The nose is fresh, with lots of crushed berry and plum, with a hint of piecrust. Full-bodied, with firm tannins and a caressing texture. This delivers loads of complex...
100 WS / 100 JS / 99 WE / 97 RP / 18 JR #1 Wine Spectator Top 100 Wines of 1997 This stock was released in 2021 directly from Taylor Fladgate's cellars. In a word, superb. It's full-bodied, moderately sweet and incredibly...
100 JS / 98 WS / 97 VM / 96 WA / 96 DE / 18 JR#4 James Suckling's Top 100 Wines of 2018 #23 Wine Spectator Top 100 2018 OMG. This is really the most amazing young Taylor's I have ever tasted. Full-bodied and lightly...
98 WE / 98 DE / 96 WS / 95 WA / 17.5++ JR#10 Wine Enthusiast Top 100 Cellar Selections 2021 This is an exceptional vintage, most unusually the third declared in a row from this producer. Intensely perfumed and richly...
92 WS Extremely impressive, with beautifully balanced, harmonious sweet fruit on the palate. Medium ruby-red, ripe cherry and cassis aromas, medium-bodied, with rich, velvety fruit flavors, full, soft tannins and a powerful...
91 JS / 16.5 JR Surprisingly delicate and fruity at this stage. Ready to drink with a lightly sweet fruit, raspberry, and dark berry character and a bright acidity. - James Suckling Tasted blind. Pale-mid tawny. A brawny...
94 JS / 18+ JR 94 Points James Suckling: “The Warre was beautiful now. It showed lots of dried fruits and Christmas cake character on the nose and palate. Medium sweet. It was full-bodied with loads of flavor and an...
18+ JR / 94 JS Mid tawny-brick. Brooding, smoky, spicy nose – almost like it’s in a backward phase – with layers of savoury depth emerging. Not full bodied, but full flavoured. Lots of intensity,...
91 WS / 90 RP / 18.5 JR "Ruby-colored, with grape, dark chocolate and plum. Full and chewy. Tannins are still there and need to mellow. Medium-sweet and grapey. A little one-dimensional still, but impressive. '77/'85/'97...
98 WS / 98 DE / 96 JS / 96 WE / 17.5 JR #14 Wine Spectator Top 100 2018 Gorgeous, with warm plum reduction and gently steeped raspberry, blackberry and boysenberry fruit flavors forming the core, all inlaid with warm...