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Martin Peeters
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recolté or vintage

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My dear friends,
As a noob I am still wondering what the difference is between an Recolté wine and a vintage wine. I have a few bottles which are marked with the indication Recolté. There are different opinions what this really is. Some say it's a colheita and others are saying it's a vintage. Btw, recolté also means vintage if I understand correctly.

Who will give the answer?

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LGTrotter
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I do not know the answer but I think 'recolte' refers to the 'harvest' or 'crop'. While this is sometimes given as 'vintage' I think there is a slight difference.

Where did you buy these bottles? I have not seen 'recolte' on port bottles and would be interested to see them. Any chance of a picture?
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Hi,

I have three of them . 2x Hooper's Recolté 1937 and 1x Companhia Velha Royal Oporto 1944.
The 1944 image is on my Facebook and is open to everyone. Of the Hooper's I had six and drunk allready four of them. Remarkebly good I have to say :P
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... 3c2cf4d375

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I've mostly (exclusively??) seen that term on Colheita's (single harvest Tawny's). Though given the douros past it wouldn't surprise me to see it on other types of port.


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He means, of course, "the Douro's past".
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djewesbury wrote:He means, of course, "the Douro's past".
Yes, my iPhone seems to change punctuation and capitalization of words without explanation.
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Andy Velebil wrote:
djewesbury wrote:He means, of course, "the Douro's past".
Yes, my iPhone seems to change punctuation and capitalization of words without explanation.
Quite so. Occupational hazard. Hence I didn't cite you for an apostrophe violation, officer! :wink:
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Many thanks, I try to keep my record clean 88)
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Andy Velebil wrote:
djewesbury wrote:He means, of course, "the Douro's past".
Yes, my iPhone seems to change punctuation and capitalization of words without explanation.
The explanation is that it is your iPhone. :wink:
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Recolté is used in France for Colheita.
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