2011 Declarations
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Douro Boys Vintage Port 2011
The brilliant 2011 vintage has produced magnificent port wines; it is even quite possibly one of the greatest vintages ever.
The Douro Boys have chosen the most promising port cask of this vintage from each quinta, and from these created a vintage port that harkens back to the great wines of the 1970s: a vintage port that's already impressive, but which will most likely achieve its true greatness only after twenty or thirty years have passed. With this, the Douro Boys are making a clean break with fashion, which recently has dictated that vintage port must also be pleasant and drinkable when young. The Douro Boys Vintage Port 2011 is most definitely targeted to the next and following generations of wine-lovers and for wine merchants, restaurateurs and parents who are not thinking only about the near-term.
Douro Boys Vintage Port 2011 will be bottled in two hundred and fifty magnums, and will be offered exclusively in the course of the auction on 13 September 2013
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Very interesting.Axel P wrote:Douro Boys Vintage Port 2011 will be bottled in two hundred and fifty magnums, and will be offered exclusively in the course of the auction on 13 September 2013
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Best link I can find: www.wine-partners.at/wp-content/uploads ... nd_new.pdf.
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And then I get sent a bottle of Feuerheerd 2011 for review! Better add Feuerheerd to the list of 2011 vintage ports please.AHB wrote: Vinko - Companhia de Vinhos declared the following three labels:
Quinta Dona Matilde
Maynards
Barao de Vilar
Vinko also own Feuerheerd but did not declare a 2011 Feuerheerd vintage port
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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Feuerheerd!AHB wrote:Feuerheerd
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a.k.a Hutcheson!!!!!jdaw1 wrote:Feuerheerd!AHB wrote:Feuerheerd
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
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Feuerheerd used to make good port. Their 1963 has a good reputation.DRT wrote:a.k.a Hutcheson!!!!!jdaw1 wrote:Feuerheerd!AHB wrote:Feuerheerd
Feuerheerd are also owned today by a different company from last year, made using grapes sourced from different vineyards and under the supervision of a different winemaker.
We should be prepared to judge the wine on its merits and not on our prejudice!
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2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
2024: Niepoort 1900 Colheita, b.1971. A near perfect Port.
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{sackcloth and ashes}AHB wrote:Feuerheerd used to make good port. Their 1963 has a good reputation.DRT wrote:a.k.a Hutcheson!!!!!jdaw1 wrote:Feuerheerd!AHB wrote:Feuerheerd
Feuerheerd are also owned today by a different company from last year, made using grapes sourced from different vineyards and under the supervision of a different winemaker.
We should be prepared to judge the wine on its merits and not on our prejudice!
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
Ernest H. Cockburn
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My point was only surprise at the brand’s continued existence.
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I hope Andy V posts the picture of the Quarles Harris 2011 that he has posted on FTLOP.
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You mean this onedjewesbury wrote:I hope Andy V posts the picture of the Quarles Harris 2011 that he has posted on FTLOP.
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Thank youAndy Velebil wrote:You mean this onedjewesbury wrote:I hope Andy V posts the picture of the Quarles Harris 2011 that he has posted on FTLOP.
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My pleasure.
I am curious, has anyone seen a Tasting Note on the 2011 Quarles Harris VP from any of the major reviewers (or anyone else for that matter) yet?
I am curious, has anyone seen a Tasting Note on the 2011 Quarles Harris VP from any of the major reviewers (or anyone else for that matter) yet?
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I vaguely recall being told, perhaps even by one of the Symingtons, that SFE was restricting itself to names with terroir. Maybe I have mis-remembered.Andy Velebil wrote:
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Julian, I must run to work but will email you later this morning (my morning mind you)
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Please share (if not private information).Andy Velebil wrote:Julian, I must run to work but will email you later this morning (my morning mind you)
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alas, they didn't even bring this into NY
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Then where did it go, and to whom?g-man wrote:alas, they didn't even bring this into NY
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no one,djewesbury wrote:Then where did it go, and to whom?g-man wrote:alas, they didn't even bring this into NY
QH is not a brand that makes it into NY.
I've called the distributor about this and they just dont move any so they stopped bringing it in.
They might have changed their minds about the 2011 vintage, but i havne't seen it offered.
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Here is part of a larger post I made regarding this Port on I suspect this is exclusive to Trader Joe's and won't be released to other merchants. Sort of a "BOB" but without the TJ's name on it.g-man wrote:no one,djewesbury wrote:Then where did it go, and to whom?g-man wrote:alas, they didn't even bring this into NY
QH is not a brand that makes it into NY.
I've called the distributor about this and they just dont move any so they stopped bringing it in.
They might have changed their minds about the 2011 vintage, but i havne't seen it offered.
.....A check on Wine-Searcher does not show anyone else carrying this. Trader Joe's buys a huge volume of Symington Ports (mostly Quarles Harris, Morgado, and Warre's Warrior, and now a Douro wine). They also have had the 1994 Quarles Harris VP recently. I suspect, this is a VP that only Trader Joe's will get as there was no fan fare about it's release and the only store who seems to have it is them.
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New Yorkers: a 2011 Horizontal is being planned, the date being a few years away. We will need QH11. There will be no other means of obtaining it. Please do the correct thing, × 24.
Also: link to ADV’s original post . (Andy: on this forum there is no need to pretend that it is the only forum. Useful links welcomed.)
Also: link to ADV’s original post . (Andy: on this forum there is no need to pretend that it is the only forum. Useful links welcomed.)
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I was just being lazy this morningjdaw1 wrote:
Also: link to ADV’s original post . (Andy: on this forum there is no need to pretend that it is the only forum. Useful links welcomed.)
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Is the list in the entry list updated? Would be nice to know the total number of declarations.
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Added
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- Quarles Harris (seemingly as an exclusive for Trader Joe’s);
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I've just noticed that Quinta do Sagrado 2011 is missing from the list of declarations. They filled 2,700 bottles.
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.