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中文版本2017 Port Releases - Back-to-Back Brilliance
“Conjecturing what the 2017s will become, the mind boggles...Clearly, these 2017 Vintage Ports merit a General Declaration.”
Neal Martin
“In my 25 years as a winemaker in our family vineyards, I have never seen a year like this. We have made some really remarkable wines.”
Charles Symington
"[1945 was] an almost identical season to 2017. Let us hope the Ports from the 2017 harvest also follow the quality of those from 1945."
David Fonseca Guimaraens
2017 is remarkably only the second ever consecutive vintage to be declared by both Port giants - the Symington Family and the Taylor Fladgate Partnership. In fact, this is the first ever back-to-back declaration in the Symington's long history and only the second in Taylor Fladgate's history (the last was in the mid-19th century). Indeed, 2017 marks a historic event in the annals of the Douro Valley.
Despite both great vintages being deemed worthy of declaration, they are both very different to one another. The 2017s have much more prominent, ripe fruit with oodles of complexity and very ripe, integrated tannins when compared to the altogether more classical 2016s. The yields in 2017 are different too - the Symington's produced a third less than in 2016 whereas the Taylor Fladgate Partnership actually made slightly more wine than in 2016.
What both behemoths agree on is that this is a great vintage - one that has a lot in common with the legendary 1945. Taylor Fladgate's David Guimaraens says that "[1945 was] an almost identical season to 2017" and the Symingtons say “The distinctive conditions experienced throughout 2017 bear striking resemblance to the rainfall and temperature patterns of 1945, which is widely considered to be one of the greatest Vintage Ports ever produced.”
Neal Martin sums up the difference between these back to back greats by saying "whereas the leitmotifs of 2016 are elegance and finesse, 2017 is more about structure and intensity. The 2017s are more hedonistic than their 2016 counterparts and yet the startling aspect of these Ports is their freshness."
Having tasted the full range of 2017s from Taylor Fladgate and the Symington Family we can fully attest to how exciting these wines are. They are very different in style to the 2016s and really should not be missed.
Minimum Order – 6 bottles
These wines will be available later in the year
Prices are in bond
***For tasting notes please click on the wine below***
2017 Vintage Ports
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Region | Vintage | Wine | Size | Cs | Bts | GBP Price |
Per | Score |  |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Vintage Port | 2017 | Cockburn | BT | 10 | 6 | 480.00 | cs |  | |
| Vintage Port | 2017 | Croft | HV | 9 | 0 | 495.00 | cs | | |
| Vintage Port | 2017 | Croft | BT | 10 | 6 | 480.00 | cs | | |
| Vintage Port | 2017 | Croft | MG | 4 | 0 | 480.00 | cs | | |
| Vintage Port | 2017 | Croft | DM | - | 5 | 180.00 | bt | | |
| Vintage Port | 2017 | Croft | IM | - | 5 | 370.00 | bt | | |
| Vintage Port | 2017 | Fonseca | HV | 9 | 0 | 655.00 | cs | | |
| Vintage Port | 2017 | Fonseca | BT | 10 | 0 | 640.00 | cs | | |
| Vintage Port | 2017 | Fonseca | MG | 3 | 3 | 640.00 | cs | | |
| Vintage Port | 2017 | Fonseca | DM | - | 5 | 235.00 | bt | | |
| Vintage Port | 2017 | Fonseca | IM | - | 5 | 475.00 | bt | | |
| Vintage Port | 2017 | Graham | HV | 5 | 0 | 676.00 | cs | | |
| Vintage Port | 2017 | Graham | BT | 10 | 6 | 660.00 | cs | | |
| Vintage Port | 2017 | Niepoort | HV | 2 | 0 | 630.00 | cs | | |
| Vintage Port | 2017 | Niepoort | BT | 2 | 6 | 590.00 | cs | | |
| Vintage Port | 2017 | Niepoort | DM | - | 2 | 330.00 | bt | | |
| Vintage Port | 2017 | Quinta do Noval | BT | 10 | 0 | 660.00 | cs | | |
| Vintage Port | 2017 | Quinta do Vesuvio | BT | 2 | 0 | 540.00 | cs | | |
| Vintage Port | 2017 | Symington 2017 Vintage Port Collection Case Contains 1 bottle each Graham, Graham Stone Terraces, Dow, Cockburn, Warre & Quinta do Vesuvio. In presentation OWC | BT6 | 6 | 0 | 565.00 | cs | | |
| Vintage Port | 2017 | Taylor  | HV | 7 | 0 | 665.00 | cs | | |
| Vintage Port | 2017 | Taylor | BT | 10 | 0 | 650.00 | cs | | |
| Vintage Port | 2017 | Taylor | MG | 1 | 0 | 650.00 | cs | | |
| Vintage Port | 2017 | Taylor | DM | - | 5 | 240.00 | bt | | |
| Vintage Port | 2017 | Taylor | IM | - | 4 | 480.00 | bt | | |
| Vintage Port | 2017 | Warre | BT | 4 | 0 | 540.00 | cs | | |
| All prices exclude UK duty & VAT and all wines are offered subject to remaining unsold. E&OE. | ||||||||||
Minimum Order – 6 bottles
These wines will be available later in the year
Prices are in bond
