Fine Wine And Vintage Port

Richard Mayson's Guide to Vintage Port is a directory supplement to his bestselling book Port and the Douro, comprising a guide to vintage port and a directory of producers and shippers.Beginning with 2015, the guide to port vintages takes each year in turn, noting relevant weather conditions, market considerations and the overall style of the wines, and highlighting particularly successful shippers. Mayson includes every 'modern' port vintage back to 1960, along with more recent Single Quinta Vintage Ports (SQVPs). Each year is given a star rating from 0 to 5 stars. Fully declared vintages prior to 1960 are also described in detail, with the oldest of the tasted wines dating back to 1844.The directory of producers and shippers provides full contact details and tasting notes for more than fifty vintage port producers and shippers. The guide also includes interesting asides on bottling vintage port, serving and tasting, and passing the port, along with special features on Quinta do Noval Nacional and Vargellas Vinha Velha.

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The completely updated third edition of Richard Mayson's Port and the Douro offers unparalleled insight into the world of port and Douro wines. An entire chapter is dedicated to vintage port, covering harvests as recent as 2015 and providing information on vintages going back to 1844.

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"In many wine regions of the world the best type of wine is made every year. This is not true of Vintage Port. The Port producers do not 'declare' a Vintage Port in every year, only in some, when they believe the wine will have enough power and durability and excellence. For most Port brands, this happens about one year in three. There is an obvious question: which years did which producers declare? There is an obvious route to the answer: ask them. They sent answers, some slightly wrong, some very wrong. Correspondence went along the lines of "Your list doesn't include 1958, but your 1958 exists, and is good." Several previous books have included an appendix listing producers and years. Each has a list of producers by year, or years by producer, with no evidence and no verifiability. All those lists have errors, both of inclusion and omission. Port Vintages has evidence of which Port producers declared which vintages, and for each, all the facts and stories that could be found. It is organised into producer chapters, and within those, by vintage. So Port Vintages is the definitive chronicle of Vintage Port over the last 2 1/2 centuries."--Jacket flap.