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Hi,
We recently had a bottle of "A. Reis" 1967 vintage port. Does anyone know anything of this house? I cannot find anything mentioned about this house anywhere.

That's a new name to me. Any chance of a picture of the label or cork or capsule or selo?

Could it be associated with the Silva Reis family and thus be a brand of Royal Oporto / Real Companhia Velha? Just a guess...

We thought is was Silva-Reis at first but his name is Manuel Silva Reis and on this bottle it says A. Reis & Co so that indicates that it is probably not connected directly to Silva Reis or Real Cia Velha. Reis is not an uncommon name in Portugal so I believe it is another Reis family.

I'll organize pictures.

Picture of the bottle.

I hope this would help in identifying the producer of this vintage port.

and another photo on the lable

Don’t know sorry.

Complete newcomer to me..

.. a small company focused on the Danish market perhaps?

Hi,
Thank you for you attempt to solve this mystery house of Port of A. Reis.

We do have a few other tricky port wine mysteries that you might provide some insight in. Please see the page "help needed" at
http://www.vintageport.se/helpus.php

We would appreciate any comments.

JB vintage wrote:We do have a few other tricky port wine mysteries that you might provide some insight in. Please see the page "help needed" at
http://www.vintageport.se/helpus.php

We do not know which Port House these Wine Merchants have bottled
!
• Hedges-Butler

We have had an H&B bottling of N63.

PS: the attempt to prevent copy-pasting is both ineffective and annoying.

To the best of my knowledge, Gilbey only bottled Croft.

I believe Hedges and Butler and Harveys bottled more than one brand.

We have no information about the producer Comp. Uniao des Vinhos do Porto e Madeira with brands like
Aguila
Cabraco
Calvares
Dom Joaquim
Magales

This is Gran Cruz, or better said, their parent company La Martiniquaise.

JB vintage wrote:We do have a few other tricky port wine mysteries that you might provide some insight in. Please see the page "help needed" at http://www.vintageport.se/helpus.php

The following is a list of declared vintages that we have seen referenced in one place or another, but the sources are somewhat inreliable and we have not been able to confirm these vintages. If you have any information about these we would be thankful.
Uncertain Vintages

Quinta da Roeda Vintages: 1970 (Croft)

1970 Croft Quinta da Roeda here

- The Nacional vineyard was planted in about 1926, so there is no NN24 or NN27

- I can confidently say that there are no 1956 declarations.

- Rumours of 1929s seem to stem from people reading the corks of '27s and spotting the bottling date. Despite it being an excellent Bordeaux vintage, I have never come across a 1929 VP (Offley may exist)

Pisca 2008 ≠ Bioma 2008.

jdaw1 wrote:Pisca 2008 ≠ Bioma 2008.

Can't see the symbol - are you saying that Pisca 08 and Bioma Vinha Velha 08 are different ports....? I disagree.

RAYC wrote:Can't see the symbol - are you saying that Pisca 08 and Bioma Vinha Velha 08 are different ports....? I disagree.

Each page has a picture, and of different-looking bottles.

jdaw1 wrote:

RAYC wrote:Can't see the symbol - are you saying that Pisca 08 and Bioma Vinha Velha 08 are different ports....? I disagree.

Each page has a picture, and of different-looking bottles.

each page of what? Certainly not the current Niepoort website itself, notwithstanding you have found an old link that is still active.

From what i understand, the Pisca 08 bottles were made, the marketing materials produced, it was then discovered shortly before bottling that the name could not be used. There was then a scramble to get new bottles made, and there was actually less Bioma Vinha Vehla bottled than originally planned because there weren't enough bottles available in time. But this is old news - it was discussed in the thread you linked to.

http://www.vintageport.se/house/AReis.php#14

Maybe they can help

Can see the bottel has a Danish name on, in Copenhagen

Thank you for all you input! Several great pieces of information.