2011 has been declared a year for vintage port and Jancis Robinson, a prestigious Master of Wine tasted 31 vintage port in London.
Taylor’s Vargellas Vinha Velha obtained the highest classification in the wine tasting – 19.5 (out of 20). According to Jancis Robinson this port ‘may just be the finest wine produced anywhere in the world in 2011’.
Robinson adds that ‘there is little doubt that 2011 produced some stunning vintage ports, into which more effort and skill has gone than any other previous vintage in the Douro. And I find it impossible to think of any other wine region, anywhere in the world, that produced better wines’.
The wines tasted are listed below (in alphabetical order):
Alves de Sousa 2011 port | 16.5 | Drink 2020-2030
Barros 2011 port | 16 | Drink 2024-2035
Churchill 2011 port | 17.5 | Drink 2030-2055
Cockburn's 2011 port | 18.5 | Drink 2028-2048
Croft 2011 port | 17 | Drink 2030-2050
Dalva 2011 port | 16.5 | Drink 2025-2035
Dow's 2011 port | 18.5 | Drink 2023-2050
Ferreira 2011 port | 17.5 | Drink 2025-2050
Fonseca 2011 port | 19.5 | Drink 2035-2080
Graham, Stone Terraces 2011 port | 18.5 | Drink 2022-2050
Graham 2011 port | 19 | Drink 2025-2060
Kopke 2011 port | 16 | Drink 2020-2030
Niepoort, Bioma Vinha Velha 2011 port | 18.5 | Drink 2035-2080
Niepoort 2011 port | 18.5++ Drink | 2030-2070
Offley, Boa Vista 2011 port | 16.5 | Drink 2024-2040
Quinta do Passadouro 2011 port | 17 | Drink 2020-2035
Quinta do Portal 2011 port | 16.5 | Drink 2028-2045
Ramos Pinto 2011 port | 17++ | Drink 2030-2060
Quinta de Roriz 2011 port | 17.5 | Drink 2025-2045
Quinta de la Rosa 2011 port | 17.5 | Drink 2025-2040
Rozès 2011 port | 17 | Drink 2030-2050
Sandeman 2011 port | 17.5 | Drink 2030-2055
Smith Woodhouse 2011 port | 17 | Drink 2030-2050
Taylor 2011 port | 19.5 | Drink 2040-2080
Taylor, Vargellas Vinha Velha 2011 port | 19.5 | Drink 2020-2070
Quinta Vale D Maria 2011 port | 17 | Drink 2020-2035
Quinta do Vale Meão 2011 port | 18 | Drink 2028-2050
Quinta do Vesúvio 2011 port | 18.5 | Drink 2022-2045
Quinta do Vesuvio, Capela 2011 port | 19 | Drink 2030-2055
Warre's 2011 port | 18 | Drink 2020-2050
Wine and Soul, Pintas 2011 port | 17 | Drink 2025-2040