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Port wine vintages
Posted: 13:40 Wed 04 Mar 2015
by PhilW
I recently came across
this list of port wine vintages on the IVDP website. Some interesting snippets of information regarding the weather in some classic years, and assessment on vintage years which back to 18thC.
One minor note though... what are 1978 and 1989 doing on this list?! Otherwise (at least as far back as 1900) the years featured are as expected.
Re: Port wine vintages
Posted: 15:23 Wed 04 Mar 2015
by DRT
PhilW wrote:what are 1978 and 1989 doing on this list?!
1978 - "the first producer’s Vintage (Quinta do Infantado), bottled in Douro." - a major landmark for the industry. Until then everything had been bottled in Oporto or abroad.
1989 - who knows. The only remarkable thing I know about that vintage is that Cruz produced over a million bottles of VP.
Re: Port wine vintages
Posted: 22:43 Wed 04 Mar 2015
by Alex Bridgeman
1989 - the first modern Vesuvio vintage
Re: Port wine vintages
Posted: 12:11 Wed 11 Mar 2015
by AWGH
Sandeman 1978 Vintage Porto
One pipe made to celebrate the birth of Christopher Sandeman (eight generation).
Climate Conditions
After a spring with very bad weather, a long and hot summer resulted in some good wines.
IVDP
Tasting Notes
With a slightly brick colour of excellent intensity, this wine boasts an extremely powerful and complex bouquet. Spices such as pepper, cinnamon and clove predominate, as well as aromatic notes of truffles and undergrowth. Canned fruits,
such as morello and cherry, floral notes of rockrose and a faint tertiary aroma of iodine stand out.
LSM (Luis Sottomayor), March 2014
Re: Port wine vintages
Posted: 13:19 Wed 11 Mar 2015
by jdaw1
AWGH wrote:One pipe made to celebrate the birth of
It suggests a delicious measure of somebody’s foretold status and importance: a whole-pipe boy.