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

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2017 Vintage Ports

	Region	Vintage	Wine	Size	Cs	Bts	GBP Price	Per	Score
	Vintage Port	2017	Cockburn	BT	10	0	480.00	cs	95 NM
	Vintage Port	2017	Cockburn	TH	-	1	180.00	bt	95 NM
	Vintage Port	2017	Croft	HV	9	0	495.00	cs	94 NM
	Vintage Port	2017	Croft	BT	10	6	480.00	cs	94 NM
	Vintage Port	2017	Croft	MG	2	3	480.00	cs	94 NM
	Vintage Port	2017	Croft	DM	-	5	180.00	bt	94 NM
	Vintage Port	2017	Croft	IM	-	4	370.00	bt	94 NM
	Vintage Port	2017	Dow	HV	1	12	676.00	cs	98 NM
	Vintage Port	2017	Fonseca	HV	7	12	655.00	cs	95 NM
	Vintage Port	2017	Fonseca	BT	10	0	640.00	cs	95 NM
	Vintage Port	2017	Fonseca	MG	3	3	640.00	cs	95 NM
	Vintage Port	2017	Fonseca	DM	-	5	235.00	bt	95 NM
	Vintage Port	2017	Fonseca	IM	-	4	475.00	bt	95 NM
	Vintage Port	2017	Graham	HV	2	0	676.00	cs	95 NM
	Vintage Port	2017	Graham	BT	2	0	660.00	cs	95 NM
	Vintage Port	2017	Graham	TH	-	2	247.00	bt	95 NM
	Vintage Port	2017	Graham Stone Terraces	BT	1	0	2,200.00	cs	97 NM
	Vintage Port	2017	Quinta do Vesuvio	BT	2	0	540.00	cs	92 NM
	Vintage Port	2017	Quinta do Vesuvio	TH	-	2	180.00	bt	92 NM
	Vintage Port	2017	Quinta do Vesuvio Capela	BT	0	6	1,500.00	cs	99 JS
	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	3	0	665.00	cs	98 NM
	Vintage Port	2017	Taylor	BT	10	6	650.00	cs	98 NM
	Vintage Port	2017	Taylor	MG	1	0	650.00	cs	98 NM
	Vintage Port	2017	Taylor	DM	-	5	240.00	bt	98 NM
	Vintage Port	2017	Taylor	IM	-	3	480.00	bt	98 NM
	Vintage Port	2017	Taylor Vargellas Vinha Velhas	BT	1	0	1,550.00	cs	97/99 MSQ
	Vintage Port	2017	Warre	BT	2	0	540.00	cs	94 NM
	Vintage Port	2017	Warre	TH	-	1	202.00	bt	94 NM
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

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