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2013 Fonseca Guimaraens

Fonseca

Port / Portugal

Red

Hlvs

0 Immediate | 5 Marketplace

£14.00

June 2013 - Market Report

Demand for the 2011 Ports accelerated in May. Jancis Robinson’s enthusiasm for the vintage was echoed by James Suckling, who calls it ‘a modern rendition of the 1966’, and suggests that vintage Port is ‘one of the best buys in the young fine wine in the world’. The Wine Advocate - very unusually - brought forward publication of its Port ...

ON June 3, 2013

May 2013 - Market Report

The market in April The 2012 campaign started early this year with several big releases during the week after the UGC tastings. Calls by merchants – FINE+RARE included - for an early campaign and significant price reduction looked to have been answered when Ch Mouton Rothschild came out at a discount of 33% to the 2011 price (ex negociant). This ...

ON May 2, 2013

A spirited debate: the tale of Port’s 20%

Port is much more than just wine. “Brandy” or aguardente makes up 20% of every bottle – and some argue that a shift in the quality of this spirit is key to the wines’ superiority in the last two decades. Sophie Thorpe spoke to the region’s leading producers to find out more about the firewater that defines the Douro’s age-old fortified wines Looking across the dramatic ...

BY Sophie Thorpe,

ON March 26, 2021

Port vintages to drink now

Ahead of St George’s Day – the day on which Port houses traditionally declare a vintage – we caught up with the Douro Valley’s leading producers to find out which vintage Ports you should be uncorking now Quality in the Douro Valley has arguably never been higher – with a run of recent vintages universally declared (2011, 2016, 2017). The 2018 vintage was declared by some ...

BY Sophie Thorpe,

ON March 19, 2021

Vintage Port 2016

Not since 2011 have so many Port houses declared a vintage year. The good news is that the 2016s have been defined by their “purity and refinement” and the universal declaration indicates high quality across the board. The bad news is that production levels are down. For the Symington Family Estates Port houses, including Dow’s, Graham’s and Warre’s, production is ...

ON April 27, 2018