Know your Port styles - The Decanter guide
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Port
Port wine is a fortified style from the Douro in Portugal. Vintage examples are famed for their longevity, while tawnys and LBVs are ready to drink much sooner.
Know your Port wine styles – The Decanter guide
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Top Ports for Christmas
How to decant vintage Port
Few traditions are as strong at Christmas as cheese and Port matching, but there are also some common mistakes to overcome – at the same time as paying your dues to festive tradition.
See all of Decanter’s Port wine reviews
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Port vintage guide: 1960-1999
Vintage summaries and top wines
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Vintage Port 2000 and 2003: panel tasting results
The results from a 24-wine panel tasting...
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Quinta do Noval: a decade of declarations
Tasting and rating wines from a recent vertical tasting of releases from 2010-2020...
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Single quinta vintage Ports explained
Discover how improvements in winemaking have led to the rise of single quinta vintage Ports...
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Leading Port producers declare a 2020 vintage
Taylor’s and Quinta do Noval have both declared a 2020 vintage...
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What is Porto Garrafeira? Ask Decanter
Discover this rare Port style
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Zoe Graham: Churchill’s rebrand to illustrate the future of Port
Zoe Graham entered her family business as sales and marketing director just before the pandemic broke out...
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Port and Sherry importers incensed by UK duty tax plans
Port and Sherry lovers would be penalised, say trade leaders...
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New 50-year-old Port category: wines rated
Discover the latest aged Port category
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Seasonal Ports: 15 of the finest bottles to try this winter
Top Ports to see you through the end of the year and into next...
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What is white Port? – ask Decanter
White Port and tonic anyone?...
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Quinta do Noval declares 2019 Port vintage
Quinta do Noval declares highly prized 'Nacional' in 2019 vintage...
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Port 2018: Vintage guide and what to buy
How do the 2018 Ports stack up against the highly rated 2015, 2016 and 2017 vintages?
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Leading Port figure James Symington dies
Credited with playing an instrumental role in reviving the Port wine industry in the second half of the 20th century.
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My Top 10: Single Quinta Ports
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Rare 1940s Ports: tasting through time with Kopke
Kopke hosts a vertical tasting with Ports from 2003, 1980, 19690 and 1940
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First taste: Taylor’s Single Harvest 1970 Port
The release of a limited-edition 50-year-old Port...
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Rare Museum Wines from Portuguese Icons
10 charismatic ‘works of time’ wines...
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Great value Christmas Ports to try
Great value Port recommendations...
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Which Ports should you drink this winter?
Richard Mayson picks his top Ports for drinking now...
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Wine Legend: Dow's Vintage Port 1955
Standing out for its elegance as well as richness...
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Port 2017: Vintage guide and what to buy
Over 25 recommendations to buy from this top vintage...
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Port 2017 declared in rare ‘back to back’ vintage
In a rare case of consecutive vintages...
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Port from 1863 sets new world auction record
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The Decanter interview: Paul Symington, CEO Symington Family Estates
Why the Douro must change...
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Jefford on Monday: Drinking with the Valkyries - young vintage Port
Why vintage Port should (also) be sampled in its youth...
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Quinta do Noval Port: A look back in time
Including a world-cup year 1966 vintage Port and a pre-war colheita...
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Revisiting vintage Port 1994: From the archive
Richard Mayson finds that the 1994s more than live up to their initial potential...
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Port 2016: Vintage report and top releases
Find out which Port wines made the cut...
