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Wine Description
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 commitme...
Wine Information
A very warm year. A total of 30,000 pipes was made in all but the shippers bought only half at vintage time, leaving many farmers with unsold wines. ‘Big rich wine, all chocolate and plums and fruitcake with a fine, elegant structure. Serious, focused and confident and very, very long. At its peak? Certainly not going downhill. Tremendous.’
Vintage 1948
Port Vintage Report: A classic Vintage. Hot year. Harvest under very hot weather (reaching 45° C). Many dried and very sweet grapes, at Cima Corgo, so much so that it was difficult to control fermentation in some cases. Low quantity. Very sweet and full-bodied wine. Suckling says it is one of those “magic wines”, made to last one hundred years or more.
Declared by some but not all Port houses, 1948s are classic Vintage Ports, with rich and...
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Average Bottle Price
| 2014 | 2010 | 2005 | 2000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 782€ +19.2% | 656€ +31.7% | 498€ +79.1% | 278€ |
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.