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  • Country ranking ?

    40
  • Producer ranking ?

    7
  • Decanting time

    2h
  • When to drink

    now to 2025

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The Story

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.
Taylor’s were also the first to invest heavily in property in the Upper Douro. The recent acquisition of Quinta do Junco illustrates the continued commitment of the firm to producing premium quality wines. Their Estates at Vargellas, Terra Feita and Junco, have been carefully selected and all have the prize Casa do Douro “A” classification. The main grape varieties used are Touriga Nacional, Touriga Francesa, Tinta Roriz, Tinta Barroca, Tinto Cão and Tinta Amarela.
Each Estate has a carefully planned programme of new planting to maintain the standards of the estate wines - used for the famous Taylor’s Vintage Ports, single Quinta wines, and the backbone of Taylor’s Late Bottled Vintage Port.


Taylor’s Vintage Port is made from grapes grown on the firms two properties Quinta de Vargellas and Quinta de Terra Feita. The stature of its Port is acknowledged by experts everywhere - and by the international wine auctions which regularly price Taylor’s Vintage Port ten to fifteen per cent above its rivals.

 

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Wine Information

Port Vintage by Taylor's / Abundant Vintage in quality and quantity. Delicate and harmonious Port wines. Almost all the companies declared it. A late harvest starting on 1st October. A few days of rain before the harvest, followed by fine weather throughout.
Amazing depth of ruby colour – up to the rim. Lively prickly fruit, mellow but not tawny; most attractive; lightweight with great balance still of fruit, acidity, tannins. Extraordinary to be over 100 years and still have such body, fruit and lovely age around it.

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Vintage 1900

Port Vintage Report: A great Vintage, in terms of quality and quantity. Delicate and harmonious wines though with less colour and body than the more famous Vintages. Almost all companies declared production. Late harvest, in late September and early October, with good weather after a few days of rain.

Declared by almost all producers, Ernest Cockburn said the wines showed “great delicacy with appreciable breed, and though lighter in colour and body than many previous vintages they appealed to the connoisseurs of Port Wine”. Tasted at over 100 years old, these Ports still have life and are delicate and fine.

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Average Bottle Price

2017 2014 2010 2005 2000
1 569€ +61.9% 969€ -15.4% 1 145€ +2.0% 1 123€ +77.7% 632€

This data comes from the FINE Auction Index, a composite of average prices for wines sold at commercial auctions in 20 countries. The average prices from each year have been collected since 1990. This chart plots the index value of the average price of the wines.

Latest Pro-tasting notes

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Tasting note

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Long, Extensive and Flavorful

taste

Warming, Medium tannin, Concentrated, Well-Integrated, Full-bodied, Firm, Focused, Vigor, Medium-Dry and Silky tannins

Verdict

Intelligent and Well made

Written Notes

The 1900 Taylor's Vintage Port sports a remarkably deep and limpid mahogany core. The nose is just sublime: not as oxidized as the 1900 Croft with touches of raisin, Chinese five-spice, dried blood and dried apricots. Though not an intense Port, it is perfumed and detailed. After thirty minutes of aeration it evolves more dried fruit aromas: dates and later molasses. The palate is full-bodied, very spicy with a fine bead of acidity and freshness. It is so harmonious with attractive notes of ginger, dried apricot, fig and raisin that dovetails into a vivacious, almost peppery finish with a silky mouthfeel. This is a majestic Taylor's that holds up brilliantly after an hour in the glass. Tasted in the Factory House in Porto for "Taylor's - The Story of a Classic Port House" book.

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Origin

Porto, Douro

Vintage Quality

Outstanding

Value For Money

Good

Investment potential

Below Average

Fake factory

There is a possibility

Glass time

1h

Drinking temperature

11
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