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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.

2003 Taylor-Fladgate

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

WE  97   
WA  96   
WS  94   
ST  93   
JR  18   

2000 Fonseca

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

WA  96   
ST  95   
WS  94   
JR  17   
2 available
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2000 Graham's

375ml

WS  98   
RP  94   
ST  94   
JR  17.5   
WS  #9 of 2003   
13 available
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2000 Graham's

375ml

Light label condition issue

WS  98   
RP  94   
ST  94   
JR  17.5   
WS  #9 of 2003   

N.V. Niepoort 20 Year Tawny

WS  92   
9 available
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1992 Quinta do Infantado

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

RP  95   
WS  90   

N.V. Ferreira Duque de Braganca 20 Year Tawny

WS  92   

2016 Croft

WS  97   
JS  97   
WE  95   
WA  94   
VN  94   
JR  16.5+    

1995 Quinta do Vesuvio

Light label condition issue

RP  95   
WS  95   
WS  #4 of 1998   

1996 Quinta do Vesuvio

Light label condition issue

JR  18.5   
WS  90   

2016 Quinta do Vale Meao

JD  98   
WS  96   
WA  91-93   
JR  17   

1985 Kopke Colheita Porto

1994 Churchill

Light label condition issue

WS  93   
3 available
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1985 Royal Oporto Wine Co.

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

2015 Filipa Pato Bairrada Tinto Nossa Calcario

Light label condition issue