Taylor’s has announced that it will release a classic Vintage Port from the 2018 harvest. According to house custom, the declaration was made on 23rd April. Comments on the Taylor’s 2018 Vintage Port are as follows:
Adrian Bridge, Managing Director
Although a Classic declaration normally only happens about three times a decade, the exceptional run of years has meant that Taylor’s has been able to mak...
Taylor’s Port is the last of the original English founding port companies to remain family owned. It has never been bought, sold or taken over. The company is run by descendants of the founders. This ensures its outlook and philosophy remains focused on the production of top quality ports.
Peter Bearsley, a member of the original firm who founded Taylor’s, was the first Englishman to visit the Upper Douro to buy wines in the early 1700’s...
Two estates, 'Quinta de Vargellas' and 'Quinta Terra Feita', have provided top quality fruit for the Taylor's vintage ports for decades, with Vargellas the backbone. 'Quinta do Junco' also contributes.
There is evidence that single quinta port from that part of the Vargellas estate owned at the time by the Carvalhos family, was available in London as far back as the late 1820's – it is considered by many that the seriously reduced yields, s...
Since its foundation in 1692, Taylor has been dedicated to making the finest Port.
The house remains entirely focused on Port production and specialised in its premium styles. Unlike most other producers, it does not market any other wine.Taylor is committed to remaining independently owned. This guarantees the continuity of purpose required to make wines of quality and character. It also preserves a priceless inheritance of experience a...
1692 Company founded.
1703 Methuen Treaty signed between Portugal and Great Britain; reduction of tax on Portuguese wines, in comparison to French wines.
1720s Peter Bearsley, son of the founder, becomes the first port shipper to visit the Douro and buy its wine.
1744 Bartholomew Bearsley buys the first British shipper’s property in the Douro, at Salgueiral; it is still owned by Taylor’s.
1755 ...
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