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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.

2007 Warre's

Light signs of past seepage; light label condition issue

WS  95   
WA  93   
ST  92   

1968 Warre's Grand Reserve Port

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

1969 Warre's LBV

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

1969 Warre's LBV

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

1974 Warre's LBV

Light capsule condition issue; light signs of past seepage; base neck fill; light label condition issue

N.V. Niepoort VV Port

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

1975 Croft

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

1977 Croft

Light capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; signs of past seepage; top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

JR  17   

2017 Croft

WS  97   
JS  97   
VN  94   
WA  93-95   
WE  93   
JR  17.5   
5 available
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2017 Croft

WS  97   
JS  97   
VN  94   
WA  93-95   
WE  93   
JR  17.5   
5 available
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2017 Croft

Light label condition issue

WS  97   
JS  97   
VN  94   
WA  93-95   
WE  93   
JR  17.5   
3 available
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1978 Ferreira

Light capsule condition issue; signs of past seepage

JR  16   

1920 Blandy's Boal Madeira

1997 Quinta do Vesuvio

JR  18.5   
RP  90   
WS  90   

1975 Cockburn

Signs of past seepage

JR  15.5   

2009 Quinta do Crasto

Light label condition issue

2 available
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1910 Cossart Gordon Sercial Madeira

Light capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork

1950 Cossart Gordon Sercial Madeira

Light capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork

1955 Gould Campbell

Capsule condition issue; signs of past seepage; base neck fill; light label condition issue

1970 Gould Campbell

Light capsule condition issue; lightly elevated cork; signs of past seepage; very top shoulder fill; label condition issue

2011 Casa Ferreirinha Douro Barca-Velha

Light label condition issue

JS  99   
WA  97   

2006 Quinta do Vale Meao Douro

Light label condition issue

WS  95   

2007 Quinta do Vale Meao Douro

Light label condition issue

JR  17.5   
2 available
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2007 Quinta do Vale Meao Douro

JR  17.5   

N.V. Broadbent 10 Year Sercial Madeira

6 available
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