I recently came across this list of port wine vintages on the IVDP website. Some interesting snippets of information regarding the weather in some classic years, and assessment on vintage years which back to 18thC.
One minor note though... what are 1978 and 1989 doing on this list?! Otherwise (at least as far back as 1900) the years featured are as expected.
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1978 - "the first producer’s Vintage (Quinta do Infantado), bottled in Douro." - a major landmark for the industry. Until then everything had been bottled in Oporto or abroad.PhilW wrote:what are 1978 and 1989 doing on this list?!
1989 - who knows. The only remarkable thing I know about that vintage is that Cruz produced over a million bottles of VP.
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1989 - the first modern Vesuvio vintage
Top Ports in 2023: Taylor 1896 Colheita, b. 2021. A perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
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Sandeman 1978 Vintage Porto
One pipe made to celebrate the birth of Christopher Sandeman (eight generation).
Climate Conditions
After a spring with very bad weather, a long and hot summer resulted in some good wines.
IVDP
Tasting Notes
With a slightly brick colour of excellent intensity, this wine boasts an extremely powerful and complex bouquet. Spices such as pepper, cinnamon and clove predominate, as well as aromatic notes of truffles and undergrowth. Canned fruits,
such as morello and cherry, floral notes of rockrose and a faint tertiary aroma of iodine stand out.
LSM (Luis Sottomayor), March 2014
One pipe made to celebrate the birth of Christopher Sandeman (eight generation).
Climate Conditions
After a spring with very bad weather, a long and hot summer resulted in some good wines.
IVDP
Tasting Notes
With a slightly brick colour of excellent intensity, this wine boasts an extremely powerful and complex bouquet. Spices such as pepper, cinnamon and clove predominate, as well as aromatic notes of truffles and undergrowth. Canned fruits,
such as morello and cherry, floral notes of rockrose and a faint tertiary aroma of iodine stand out.
LSM (Luis Sottomayor), March 2014
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It suggests a delicious measure of somebody’s foretold status and importance: a whole-pipe boy.AWGH wrote:One pipe made to celebrate the birth of