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Portugal

Portugal is best known for its two legendary fortified wines, Port and Madeira, but it also produces significant amounts of red and white table wine. In most years it ranks around the 10th or 11th largest wine producer in the world. In 2013, for instance, Portugal was the 11th largest producer just after Germany. Wine has always been produced in Portugal and in fact the country was the first to organize an appellation system, which it did in 1756, nearly 200 years before the French set up their appellations. The highest quality wines are labeled D.O.C. for Denominaçào de Origem Controlada. Many of the most innovative winemakers today, however, are avoiding the appellation system, which they deem too stifling for modern winemaking practices. The Douro Valley is the nation’s most important wine producing region, and it is the capital of Port production. The Portuguese island of Madeira, located 400 miles west of Morocco, is the nation’s other famous wine region, having produced Madeira for export for more than 400 years. Many red and white wine grapes grow in Portugal, though the best known is Touriga Nacional, the red grape used for Port and, increasingly, high quality table wines. Touriga Nacional produces dark, tannic, fruity wines.

1795 Barbeito Terrantez Madeira

Capsule condition issue

1847 Shortridge Lawton & Co. Ltd Boal Madeira

Light capsule condition issue; missing front label

1900 Manuel de Sousa Herdeiros Boal Madeira

Capsule condition issue; base neck fill; label condition issue; bottled in 1978

1900 Manuel de Sousa Herdeiros Boal Madeira

Heavy capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; light signs of past seepage; very top shoulder fill; label condition issue; bottled in 1978

1900 Manuel de Sousa Herdeiros Boal Madeira

Capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; light signs of past seepage; label condition issue; bottled in 1978

1900 Manuel de Sousa Herdeiros Boal Madeira

Capsule condition issue; light signs of past seepage; label condition issue; bottled in 1978

1901 Barbeito Reserva Velha Malvasia Madeira

Capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

1975 Feuerheerd Colheita

2 available
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1980 Quinta do Noval Nacional

Capsule condition issue; light signs of past seepage; light label condition issue

MB  ***   

1980 Castel do Castelao Garrafeira

Light capsule condition issue; signs of past seepage; top shoulder fill

1982 Sandeman

Light capsule condition issue; signs of past seepage; top shoulder fill; label condition issue

MB  ***   

1983 Warre's

Lightly elevated cork

MB  ****   

1985 Quinta do Noval

12-bottle Lot, Wood Case

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue; Case condition issue

1991 Quinta do Noval Nacional

Capsule condition issue; light signs of past seepage; mid shoulder fill; light label condition issue

1992 Taylor-Fladgate

Light label condition issue

RP  100   
WS  95   
MB  **/*   
WS  #18 of 1995   

1994 Quinta do Vesuvio

Light label condition issue; back label is tissue stained

WS  96   
RP  92   

1995 D'Oliveiras Tinta Negra Medium Dry Madeira

Light capsule condition issue

1995 Caves Sao Joao Arinto Quinta do Poço do Lobo

Light capsule condition issue

WE  91   

1996 Quinta do Vesuvio

Light label condition issue

JR  18.5   
WS  90   

1997 Quinta do Noval

Light label condition issue

RP  100   
WS  97   
ST  94   
JR  18   
3 available
Bid *

2000 Quinta do Noval Silval

RP  90   
ST  90   

2000 Broadbent

Light label condition issue

WS  92-94   
RP  90   

2000 Broadbent

12-bottle Lot, Wood Case

See item details for bottle notes

WS  92-94   
RP  90   

2006 Adega Regional de Colares Arenae

500ml

2011 Quinta do Vale Meao

Lightly depressed cork

WS  98   
WA  91-93   
VN  90