Port and the Douro (Infinite Ideas Classic Wine)

168 Port anD the Douro ‘poise’ are words that crop up frequently in my tasting notes, particularly among the best wines which sh ...

vintage Port 169 on the vine. Young vineyards were badly affected whereas older vines, with their deeper root systems, withstood ...

170 Port anD the Douro year when just 147mm of rain fell at Pinhão during the first four months of the year (less than half the ...

vintage Port 171 Douro Superior the thermometer rose to 48°C and some fledgling bunches of grapes began to show queima (burn). T ...

172 Port anD the Douro and Touriga Nacional, a variety notoriously susceptible to coulure, produced well. Sogrape (owners of Fer ...

vintage Port 173 2001 **/*** good middle-weight wines for drinking over the medium term The year began with one of the wettest w ...

174 Port anD the Douro desavinho (coulure) particularly in the A grade vineyards. Potential yields fell by as much as 30 per cen ...

vintage Port 175 Canais, Cálem, Martinez, Churchill), the finest 2000s will take at least twenty years to reach a plateau of per ...

176 Port anD the Douro up energy in foliage rather than fruit set. Taylor recorded 40cm shoot growth over one weekend in early M ...

vintage Port 177 1999, marking up their prices by around 30 per cent on the 1994s, which had risen sharply on the open market. F ...

178 Port anD the Douro wines but the concentration of flavour (often rather jammy) justified a full declaration for some. Had it ...

vintage Port 179 Pick of the Vintage: Dow; Fonseca; Graham; Taylor; Quinta do Noval; Quinta do Noval Nacional; Warre. 1993 – one ...

180 Port anD the Douro the grapes looking rather shrivelled but heavy night-time dew helped to swell the berries. Rain in mid-Se ...

vintage Port 181 1988 ** tiny crop, a few concentrated wines, others unbalanced A very challenging year in all respects and an e ...

182 Port anD the Douro week or so. When picking began, sugar readings were relatively low but fortunately, despite more rain on ...

vintage Port 183 ready to drink and continue to develop well until 2030 at least. Fonseca would benefit from more time in bottle ...

184 Port anD the Douro vineyard microclimates. August and early September were hot and the start date of vintage was brought for ...

vintage Port 185 Dow’s Bomfim, Graham’s Malvedos and Warre’s Cavadinha were still showing quite well in 2011 with Malvedos the b ...

186 Port anD the Douro 1976 ** soft, sweet and early maturing The winter of 1975/76 was extremely dry. A hot, dry summer followe ...

vintage Port 187 harvest had begun too early. In the event, wet weather returned in early October. High yields produced undistin ...