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• Alves de Sousa;
• Andresen, J. H.;
• Bulas;
• Casal dos Jordoes (correctly Jordões) - seen in a wine shop in Vila Nova de Gaia in June 2017
• Castello d'Alba (from Rui Roboredo Madeira Vinhos SA, seen in a wine shop in Porto)
• Churchill Graham:
  • Churchill (3,000 cases);
  • Churchill Quinta da Gricha;
• Confraria do Vinho do Porto
• Dalva;
• DR (Agri-Roncão Vinicola Lda) (125 cases);
• ‘Douro Boys’ (40 cases in magnums only);
• Duorum;
• Gran Cruz;
• Heritage Porto & Douro (their first independent vintage)
• Messias;
• Miguel's
• Niepoort:
  • Niepoort (1,650 cases);
  • Niepoort Bioma;
  • Broadbent (170 cases);
  • Morgadio de Calçada Vintage Porto (Dirk Niepoort);
• Pintas;
• Poças;
• Presidential;
• Quevedo (320 cases);
• Quinta da Prelada;
• Quinta da Romaneira (7,000 cases);
• Quinta da Senhora do Convento;
• Quinta de Eira Velha;
• Quinta de la Rosa (833 cases);
• Quinta de Val da Figueira;
• Quinta de Valle Longo;
• Quinta do Crasto;
• Quinta do Infantado;
• Quinta do Jalloto
• Quinta do Noval:
  • Quinta do Noval (2,200 cases);
  • Quinta do Noval Nacional (230 cases);
• Quinta do Passadouro;
• Quinta do Portal;
• Quinta do Sagrado (225 cases);
• Quinta do Tedo;
• Quinta do Tedo Savedra;
• Quinta do Vale do Meão
• Quinta do Vallado Adelaide;
• Quinta Seara d’Ordens;
• Quinta Vale Dona Maria;
• Ramos Pinto;
• Real Companhia Velha:
  • Delaforce (500 cases, produced on contract by Taylor Fladgate Partnership);
  • Royal Oporto (1,500 cases);
  • Real Companhia Velha (4,500 cases);
  • Quinta das Carvalhas (500 cases);
• Rozès:
  • Rozès;
  • Rozès Quinta do Grifo;
  • Rozès Quinta do Pego;
• Rui Roboredo Madeira:
  • Castello d’Alba;
  • Fafide;
• Sequeirinha (brand name of the Sequeira family port firm);
• Sogevinus:
  • Barros;
  • Burmester;
  • Cálem;
  • Kopke;
  • Rocha;
• Sogrape (PT):
  • Ferreira;
  • Offley;
  • Sandeman;
  • Sandeman Vau (500 cases);
• Symington Family Estates:
  • Special SFE blend made for Berry Brothers;
  • Cockburn (3,000 cases);
  • Dow (5,000 cases);
  • Graham (8,000 cases);
  • Graham’s The Stone Terraces Vintage Port (250 cases);
  • Quarles Harris (seemingly as an exclusive for Trader Joe’s);
  • Quinta do Vesuvio (1,250 cases);
  • Capela da Quinta do Vesuvio (200 cases);
  • Quinta de Roriz (being Prats & Symington, rather than just Symington) (350 cases);
  • Smith Woodhouse (1,000 cases);
  • Warre (3,000 cases);
  • Special SFE blend for The Wine Society;
• Taylor-Fladgate Partnership:
  • Croft (5,000 cases);
  • Quinta da Eira Velha;
  • Fonseca (6,000 cases);
  • Skeffington;
  • Taylor (11,000 cases);
  • Vargellas Vinha Velha (310 cases);
• Vieira de Sousa;
• Vinko Companhia de Vinhos:
  • Barão de Vilar;
  • Feuerheerd;
  • Quinta Dona Matilde;
  • Maynard;
• Vista Alegre
• Wiese & Krohn:
  • Krohn;
  • Krohn Retiro Novo;

g-man wrote:Quevedo is announcing, email from Oscar to me.

AHB wrote:

g-man wrote:Quevedo is announcing, email from Oscar to me.

Please post the text of the announcement here, if Oscar is happy for you to do so.

g-man wrote:

AHB wrote:

g-man wrote:Quevedo is announcing, email from Oscar to me.

Please post the text of the announcement here, if Oscar is happy for you to do so.

sorry text of announcement came with a private transaction i can't post =(

DRT wrote:

g-man wrote:

AHB wrote:

g-man wrote:Quevedo is announcing, email from Oscar to me.

Please post the text of the announcement here, if Oscar is happy for you to do so.

sorry text of announcement came with a private transaction i can't post =(

Or you could ask Oscar permission?

g-man wrote:Sorry, i need to clarify that it's my private transaction and due to certain alcohol laws, I have to keep it private, but I'll tell ask Oscar to post directly that he's declaring =)

DRT wrote:

g-man wrote:Sorry, i need to clarify that it's my private transaction and due to certain alcohol laws, I have to keep it private, but I'll tell ask Oscar to post directly that he's declaring =)

There is no need to mention your private transaction. But now that you have done so it is difficult to keep it secret.

• Pintas
• Ferreira
• Offley
• Sandeman "Classic Vintage"
• Churchill
• Niepoort
• Bioma Vinha Velha
• Graham's
• Graham's "Stone Terraces Vintage Port"
• Dow
• Warre
• Vesuvio
• Vesuvio Capella
• Cockburn
• Smith Woodhouse; and
• Ramos Pinto

AHB wrote:The Big Fortified Tasting will be showing samples of the following:

• Vesuvio Capella

AHB wrote:The Big Fortified Tasting will be showing samples of the following:
!

• Graham's "Stone Terraces Vintage Port"

DRT wrote:

AHB wrote:The Big Fortified Tasting will be showing samples of the following:
!

• Graham's "Stone Terraces Vintage Port"

Does anyone know what this is?

[url=http://www.thevintageportsite.com/view.php?id=14450]here[/url], TheVintagePortsite wrote:The house at Malvedos has one of the finest locations of all Douro quintas, with a breath-taking view of the Douro from the tranquility of the veranda. Just to the east of the house are the famous Port Arthur stone walled terraces, so called as their shape was reminiscent of a heavily fortified city of that name which was in the news in the years just after the quinta was acquired. They are among the most striking and best preserved in the Douro, with beautiful integral stairways; superb examples of the stone mason's art.

DRT wrote:Does anyone know what this is?

jdaw1 wrote:≈ Graham Nacional ≈ Graham Capela ≈ Graham Vinha Velha?

RAYC wrote:My guess: a new "super-cuvee" from the vines around the terraces

RAYC wrote: Edit: also a reference here to the "Port Arthur" vineyard producing some of the best TN at the Quinta, although it seems like a single varietal block so not sure my guess is correct...BUT reference here to the separate vinification of 2010 "Port Arthur" grapes with "parcel 37", so perhaps 2011 was the next iteration of this experiment?

Charles is particularly pleased with the quality and flavour of the Touriga Nacional from Port Arthur, and from the north facing parcel 37 just behind the house; it looks as if those will be vinified together again this year.

RAYC wrote:

[url=http://www.thevintageportsite.com/view.php?id=14450]here[/url], TheVintagePortsite wrote:The house at Malvedos has one of the finest locations of all Douro quintas, with a breath-taking view of the Douro from the tranquility of the veranda. Just to the east of the house are the famous Port Arthur stone walled terraces, so called as their shape was reminiscent of a heavily fortified city of that name which was in the news in the years just after the quinta was acquired. They are among the most striking and best preserved in the Douro, with beautiful integral stairways; superb examples of the stone mason's art.

Churchill wrote:2011 has the makings of a phenomenal Port Vintage. In all my 39 vintages I have never encountered young Ports with such colour, structure and intensity. These Ports are head and shoulders above anything I have ever seen at this stage.

RAYC wrote:

AHB wrote:The Big Fortified Tasting will be showing samples of the following:

• Vesuvio Capella

I wondered whether this was a re-brand or a mistake in the BFT catalogue!

The Vintage Port Site wrote:The Symington family are very pleased and proud to announce our decision to declare 2011 Vintage Ports for seven of our brands: Graham’s, Dow’s, Warre’s, Cockburn’s, Quinta do Vesuvio and Smith Woodhouse, as well as the Prats + Symington brand Quinta de Roriz. In addition, the extraordinary conditions of 2011 have enabled us to once more make the limited edition Capela da Quinta do Vesuvio 2011 (previously made only in 2007), and Graham’s has produced the limited edition Graham’s The Stone Terraces Vintage Port for the first time.

No Gould Campbell?

Cynthia J wrote:These ports are typically made with the grapes bought in from Douro farmers, primarily in the Pinhão and Rio Torto valleys. For 2011 Symington was focussed on the opportunity to make creme de la creme ports from our own quintas - and when Charles reviewed the possible blends for these brands, the wines were simply not in the same league, so the decision was taken to let this year pass for those brands.

Are the Symingtons willing to give estimated optimal drinking windows for their 2011 declarations? Which will be at peak first, and which will take longest?

Cynthia J wrote:I don't think I have ever heard or seen SFE put "drink by" dates on their wines!

Cynthia J wrote:You know that at the Vinum Restaurant every table has a little arrangement of schist as a centrepiece? I'm not sure how much more stone we can spare right now...

g-man wrote:any word if the grahams' stones are going to see light of day state side?

Axel P wrote:Bottle(s) arrived yesterday.

g-man wrote:is it me or is the dow label slightly crooked?