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AHB wrote:a Quinta da Dona Matilde 2011 port from Barao de Vilar.

The list already has a ‟Barão de Vilar”: is the ‟Quinta da Dona Matilde” different, or the same with more accurate naming?

Corney & Barrow full offer here.

They think the Nacional will be £300 a bottle:

"Quinta do Noval Nacional ”“ price yet to be fixed but it is in the region of £300 / case of 1ib"

Corney & Barrow scores:
• 19 Graham
• 19 Taylor
• 19 Taylor Quinta de Vargellas Vinha Velha
• 18¾ Graham The Stone Terraces
• 18¾ Fonseca
• 18¾ Niepoort's Bioma Vinha Velha
• 18 Warre
• 18 Churchill
• 18 Sandeman
• 17¾ Niepoort
• 17½ Cockburn
• 17½ Ferreira
• 17 Vesuvio
• 17 Offley
• 16¾ Dow
• 16¾ Croft
• 16¾ Quinta do Noval
• 16½ Pintas
• 16 Skeffington
• 15¾ Quinta Vale Dona Maria
• 15½ Smith Woodhouse

Discuss!

jdaw1 wrote: • 16¾ Quinta do Noval

Seems surprising

I haven’t yet tasted the Noval, but Dow was my favourite non-special-cuvée. Yet:

jdaw1 wrote:• 16¾ Dow

Croft is also surprisingly dis-favoured.

jdaw1 wrote:I haven’t yet tasted the Noval, but Dow was my favourite non-special-cuvée. Yet:

jdaw1 wrote:• 16¾ Dow

Croft is also surprisingly dis-favoured.

I agree with you about the Dow. I don't recall tasting the Croft. Smith Woodhouse is completely beyond the bounds of acceptability it seems.

djewesbury wrote:Smith Woodhouse is completely beyond the bounds of acceptability it seems.

Corney & Barrow wrote:Our tasting notes provide full details but, at your request, we have also introduced a clear and simple marking system. We hope these guidelines assist you in your selection.
14-16 A very good to excellent wine.
16-18 An excellent to outstanding wine.
18-20 An outstanding to legendary wine.
•Wines are judged within their peer group.
• A definitive score of a young wine is almost always impossible. We usually offer a 'spread' (e.g. 14-16) which relates to the potential to achieve a higher mark. A ‘+’ adds further to that potential.
• A score is a summary only. The devil is in the detail, so please focus on the tasting notes.

So C&B think SW11 (a Battersea and Clapham Junction Port) to be almost excellent.

You imply that they will be drinking a lot of Noval in Arnos Grove... And quite a bit of Warre in Notting Hill. These seem equally believable.

jdaw1 wrote:Corney & Barrow scores:
• 19 Graham
• 19 Taylor
• 19 Taylor Quinta de Vargellas Vinha Velha
• 18¾ Graham The Stone Terraces
• 18¾ Fonseca
• 18¾ Niepoort's Bioma Vinha Velha
• 18 Warre
• 18 Churchill
• 18 Sandeman
• 17¾ Niepoort
• 17½ Cockburn
• 17½ Ferreira
• 17 Vesuvio
• 17 Offley
• 16¾ Dow
• 16¾ Croft
• 16¾ Quinta do Noval
• 16½ Pintas
• 16 Skeffington
• 15¾ Quinta Vale Dona Maria
• 15½ Smith Woodhouse

Discuss!

An interesting write-up of the C&B tasting - which was conducted blind - has been posted here.

Query whether C&B's final scores were also composed blind....

Interesting as my score right now on the Dow's would be in line with theirs. I wasn't too impressed at this young stage. But time will tell if its just a youthful awkward stage (as i suspect) or not.

Andy Velebil wrote:Interesting as my score right now on the Dow's would be in line with theirs. I wasn't too impressed at this young stage. But time will tell if its just a youthful awkward stage (as i suspect) or not.

That is interesting; it showed well in London and was quite fine...

Posted this in another thread but thought it should be repeated here too. Just to say that Fine + Rare have a good price on Niepoort 11 if anyone hasn't already bought it.

jdaw1 wrote:

AHB wrote:a Quinta da Dona Matilde 2011 port from Barao de Vilar.

The list already has a ‟Barão de Vilar”: is the ‟Quinta da Dona Matilde” different, or the same with more accurate naming?

I am told that they are different blends from different vineyards. Interestingly Barao de Vilar have recently bought the Feuerheerd name and might be releasing a 4th blend under that name in future years.

AHB wrote:

jdaw1 wrote:

AHB wrote:a Quinta da Dona Matilde 2011 port from Barao de Vilar.

The list already has a ‟Barão de Vilar”: is the ‟Quinta da Dona Matilde” different, or the same with more accurate naming?

I am told that they are different blends from different vineyards. Interestingly Barao de Vilar have recently bought the Feuerheerd name and might be releasing a 4th blend under that name in future years.

While we're at it, is Maynard not a Barão de Vilar brand? Should that be nested under BdV in the first post?

uncle tom wrote:2011 TFP release prices now received.

Packing formats available:

12 x 37.5cL
12 x 75cL
6 x 75cL
6 x 150cL
1 x 300cL
1 x 600cL

Skeffington will only be available in 6 x 75cL & 12 x 75cL, VVV will only be available in 3 x 75cL

Prices are per 9L case. Prices for 300cL and 600cL format include a 10% surcharge.

Prices are IB from TPS, offer closes mid July.

Taylor - £456.00/cs (300cL - £167.20, 600cL - £334.40)

Taylor VVV - £1226.64/cs ( = £306.66 for 3 x 75cL)

Fonseca - £456.00/cs (300cL - £167.20, 600cL - £334.40)

Croft - £364.80/cs (300cL - £133.76, 600cL - £267.52)

Skeffington - £228.00/cs

Hi Uncle Tom,

I've sent you a (actually two) PM, about the VP's that I would be interested in, if it is possible to arrange a pick-up moment for me (since I'm from The Netherlands, and would like to come over to the UK to pick them up at some point.
Best regards!

If anyone sees an offering for Graham's in double magnums, please let me know. USA shipping preferred, but I could probably also arrange to store a purchase in the UK to be picked up at an unspecified later date if necessary.

Some more confirmed declarations, confirmed non-declarations and a limited release declaration.

Declared:
Alves de Sousa
Dalva
Duorum
Quinta da Romaneira
Quinta da Senhora do Convento
Quinta de Vale da Dona Maria
Quinta de Vale Meao
Rozes Quinta do Pego

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

I am told that there was a limited amount of Quarles Harris 2011 made to order for a specific customer in the US. This is not going to be offered as a general release.

Confirmed as not declared:
Heredias (only made the Senhora do Convento label)
Quinta Nova do Nossa Senhora do Carmo

Please could the owner of the first post of this thread update that first post.

Thanks JDAW!

do we typically include SQVP as part of 2011 declarations?

First post updated. Please check.

In thirty years we will want to do a proper horizontal of this vintage, and with so many small-volume declarations that will be impossible.

The Wine Society are apparently going to offer a TWS SFE blend. Is that likely to be a Quarles Harris by another name? Or a custom blend?

Readers of this thread might be interested in a proposed horizontal to be held on Sunday 23rd April 2051.

[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=58791#p58791]Here[/url] djewesbury wrote:I mentioned Crasto. I intend to get hold of this in the Douro in September. I notice that it is not included in the list of 2011 Vintage Ports declared to which JDAW linked above..

Added.

Is it ‟Offley”, or ‟Offley Boa Vista”?

(Same image, copied from sograpevinhos.eu to jdawiseman.com)

I think Offley Boa Vista.

jdaw1 wrote:I think Offley Boa Vista.

+1.
As far as I'm aware, all VP from Offley is marked Offley Boa Vista (all bottles from 1947 for which I have label images to hand would appear to confirm this).

Comparing the list of 2011 vintage ports tasted at the IVDP's presentation in Oporto a couple of weeks ago to the list published on the first post of this thread, I note that the following producers presented their wines but do not appear on our list of declarations (yet).

Bulas
Cruz
Pocas
Presidential (which was shown in addition to the Dalva!)
Quinta Casa Amarela
Quinta da Prelada
Quinta das Carvalhas (which could be the Royal Oporto that we have listed, or has Carvalhas been sold?)
Quinta de Valle Longo
Quinta do Sagrado
Quinta do Vallado
Quinta Seara D'Ordens
Vieira de Sousa
Vista Alegre

2011 Vintage Port Douro Boys Cuvee (only in Magnums)

Axel

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

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

Very interesting.

Best link I can find: www.wine-partners.at/wp-content/uploads ... nd_new.pdf.

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

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:Feuerheerd

Feuerheerd!

jdaw1 wrote:

AHB wrote:Feuerheerd

Feuerheerd!

a.k.a Hutcheson!!!!!

DRT wrote:

jdaw1 wrote:

AHB wrote:Feuerheerd

Feuerheerd!

a.k.a Hutcheson!!!!!

Feuerheerd used to make good port. Their 1963 has a good reputation.

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!

AHB wrote:

DRT wrote:

jdaw1 wrote:

AHB wrote:Feuerheerd

Feuerheerd!

a.k.a Hutcheson!!!!!

Feuerheerd used to make good port. Their 1963 has a good reputation.

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!

{sackcloth and ashes}

My point was only surprise at the brand’s continued existence.

I hope Andy V posts the picture of the Quarles Harris 2011 that he has posted on FTLOP.

djewesbury wrote:I hope Andy V posts the picture of the Quarles Harris 2011 that he has posted on FTLOP.

You mean this one

Andy Velebil wrote:

djewesbury wrote:I hope Andy V posts the picture of the Quarles Harris 2011 that he has posted on FTLOP.

You mean this one

Thank you

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?

Andy Velebil wrote:

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.

Julian, I must run to work but will email you later this morning (my morning mind you)

Andy Velebil wrote:Julian, I must run to work but will email you later this morning (my morning mind you)

Please share (if not private information).

alas, they didn't even bring this into NY

g-man wrote:alas, they didn't even bring this into NY

Then where did it go, and to whom?

djewesbury wrote:

g-man wrote:alas, they didn't even bring this into NY

Then where did it go, and to whom?

no one,

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.

g-man wrote:

djewesbury wrote:

g-man wrote:alas, they didn't even bring this into NY

Then where did it go, and to whom?

no one,

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.

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.

.....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.

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.)

jdaw1 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.)

I was just being lazy this morning

Is the list in the entry list updated? Would be nice to know the total number of declarations.

Added

jdaw1 wrote:

• • Quarles Harris (seemingly as an exclusive for Trader Joe’s);

I've just noticed that Quinta do Sagrado 2011 is missing from the list of declarations. They filled 2,700 bottles.