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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.

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

N.V. Niepoort 20 Year Tawny

WS  92   
5 available
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2020 Quinta Da Pacheca Touriga Nacional Grande Reserva

WE  92   

2003 Quinta de la Rosa Vintage Port

2020 Quinta De Soalheiro Alvarinho Tur Terroir

4 available
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2020 Quinta De Soalheiro Alvarinho Tur Terroir

Light label condition issue

3 available
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2019 Quinta do Crasto Douro Altitude 430

Light label condition issue

4 available
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2016 Quinta do Crasto Douro Reserva Old Vines

Light label condition issue

WA  93+    
7 available
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2016 Quinta do Crasto Douro Superior

Light label condition issue

WS  92   
JR  16   
3 available
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1997 Quinta do Noval

Light label condition issue

RP  100   
WS  97   
ST  94   
JR  18   

1985 Quinta do Noval

12-bottle Lot, Wood Case

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

2017 Quinta do Noval Douro Touriga Nacional

WA  93   
JS  92   

1980 Quinta do Noval Nacional

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

MB  ***   

1991 Quinta do Noval Nacional

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

2011 Quinta do Vale Meao

Lightly depressed cork

WS  98   
WA  91-93   
VN  90   

1996 Quinta do Vesuvio

Light label condition issue

JR  18.5   
WS  90   

2016 Quinta dos Murças Assobio

12 available
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1963 Robertson Rebello Valente

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

9 available
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1963 Sandeman

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

WS  96   
WA  93   
MB  ****   
10 available
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1963 Sandeman

Light label condition issue

WS  96   
WA  93   
MB  ****   
8 available
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1963 Sandeman

Light capsule condition issue; label condition issue

WS  96   
WA  93   
MB  ****   
5 available
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1963 Sandeman

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

WS  96   
WA  93   
MB  ****   
3 available
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