OffleyOffley Boa Vista

1982 Offley Boa Vista

Offley

Port / Portugal

Red

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£91.00

Vintage Charts

2013 is already being written about even though the grapes are only just in and, in most cases, fermenting. We are some distance from the finished product, so calling the quality of the vintage in many cases is a little like speculating on the career prospects of a two-year-old. But we do it nonetheless (and, of course, my two-year-old will ...

ON November 5, 2013

A Mixed Vintage

When Bud Cuchet and I visited Bordeaux in early October all looked set fair for a very good vintage. There are few better barometers of a vintage’s quality than the faces of the men tasked with making and selling the wine, and there were smiles all round as we inspected the vineyards in the beautiful October sunshine. Sadly, whilst we ...

ON April 18, 2013

Market Outlook April 2013

Chateau Latour releases the first of its mature ex-chateau stock Having announced last year that 2011 would be the last vintage to be offered en primeur, Ch Latour made a first release of older stock from its cellars in March, in advance of the forthcoming en primeur campaign. The 1995 vintage of the Grand Vin was released along with 2005 Forts ...

ON April 5, 2013

Does vintage matter?

Each year we focus on the new vintages released from Burgundy, Bordeaux and elsewhere. In an era when truly bad vintages are a thing of the past, Gavin Smith wonders whether in fact it's the hand of the winemaker that reigns supreme At the time of the latest vintage release from Burgundy, it is always the year’s conditions that dominate ...

BY Gavin Smith,

ON November 19, 2020

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