Best Vintage Port Wine Years

The declaration of the 2017 port vintage was an oddity.
Best vintage port wine years. Gifted growers often make excellent wine in lesser vintages just as in outstanding years mediocrity can prove a stronger force even than mother nature. The deciding factors in declared vintage years depend on a few critical factors such as rain just before the harvest and whether the best grapes are picked under ideal conditions. Other outstanding wines are.
Taylor fladgate vintage port portugal. Wine vintage charts are broad brush generalisations based on regional weather conditions leading up to and during the harvest and should be considered in context. Vintage 2016 top wines.
W j graham s the stone terraces vintage port portugal. They are only produced when the port shippers declare a vintage considered to be of excellent quality. Most declared either single quinta port or under their second label.
The fortified wine from portugal s douro valley is only made or as port producers say declared in the best years. The stellar vintages are 1966 70 77 80 83 85 87 92 94 2003 07 11 and 16. The exception was quinta do noval who declared nacional made in tiny quantities and certainly one of the best wines of the vintage.
Graham s 2016 the stone terraces vintage port. Best vintage port wines based on scores from a wide range of critics updated monthly. As a result making great vintage port is equal parts skill and luck.
On average about one out of three or four years are vintage port declarations. The 2016 harvest in the douro brought perfectly timed rain that turned a good year into a great one. The top wines will age at least 20 30 years after release.