2011 Wine and Port Vintage

Colheita Port, Douro
50cl Bottle
Exclusive to Vintage Wine and Port

A 50cl bottle of 2011 vintage Colheita Port Wine from Palmer Port.

This port has been aged in seasoned oak casks since the 2011 harvest until bottling. This 2011 colheita is an outstanding example of an aged tawny.

Tasting Notes: The 2011 Port from Palmer shows a deep tawny, evolving from its initial ruby red due to the aging process. On the nose it is aromatic and complex, with notes of dried fruits (figs, dates, and raisins), toasted nuts (almonds and walnuts), caramel, and a touch of spice. Smooth and well-integrated flavours of dried fruits, honey, toffee, and vanilla, with hints of oak and spice from the aging process. …
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Price: £27.95
Stock: 2 in Stock

Colheita Port, Douro
75cl Bottle
Exclusive to Vintage Wine and Port.

A 75cl bottle of 2011 vintage Colheita Port Wine from Palmer Port.

This port has been aged in seasoned oak casks since the 2011 harvest until bottling. This 2011 colheita is an outstanding example of an aged tawny.

Tasting Notes: The 2011 Port from Palmer shows a deep tawny, evolving from its initial ruby red due to the aging process. On the nose it is aromatic and complex, with notes of dried fruits (figs, dates, and raisins), toasted nuts (almonds and walnuts), caramel, and a touch of spice. Smooth and well-integrated flavours of dried fruits, honey, toffee, and vanilla, with hints of oak and spice from the aging process. …
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Price: £39.95
Stock: 46 in Stock

Colheita Port, Douro
Presented in Gift Tube

The 2011 Burmester Colheita Port is a classic wine of exceptional quality and elegance. The Port is made from a single harvest (a "Vintage Tawny") and aged in small 550-litre oak barrels in their Vila Nova de Gaia Cellars. It is bottled at least seven years after the harvest.

The 2011 has a complex nose with dark berries, cress, coffee . Full-bodied and great balance. Smooth palate that reflects the nose. Very good length. Excellent.

Winemaking:
Hand-picked at the optimum time, the grapes are then destemmed, crushed and converted into wine through a process of careful maceration to extract their colour, tannins and aromas, enhanced by constant churning during fermentation. …
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Price: £29.95
Stock: 60 in Stock

Vintage Port, Douro
Presented in Wooden Gift Box
*** 93 points Wine Spectator ***
***88-90 Points - Robert Parker***

The 2011 Burmester Vintage Port Wine is, according to Kim Marcus (Wine Spectator), an "intensely fruity" wine with great complexity and concentration, notes of "raspberries, black plums and wild cherries." This wine offers a "refined finish" with a touch of "dark chocolate, tea and brown sugar." It is a wine that, according to the critic, is ready to drink but has the ability to continue ageing during the next three decades.

"The 2011 J W Burmester has a sweeter, comparatively floral bouquet with open, generous scents of ripe dates, black plum and raisin that need to show a little more restraint. …
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Price: £69.95
Stock: 76 in Stock

Vintage Port, Douro- MAGNUM
Presented in Wooden Gift Box
*** 93 points Wine Spectator ***

The 2011 Burmester Vintage Port Wine is, according to Kim Marcus (Wine Spectator), an "intensely fruity" wine with great complexity and concentration, notes of "raspberries, black plums and wild cherries." This wine offers a "refined finish" with a touch of "dark chocolate, tea and brown sugar." It is a wine that, according to the critic, is ready to drink but has the ability to continue ageing during the next three decades.

"The 2011 J W Burmester has a sweeter, comparatively floral bouquet with open, generous scents of ripe dates, black plum and raisin that need to show a little more restraint. …
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Price: £129.00
Stock: 21 in Stock

Vintage Port
Special Introductory Offer | only £79.95

The Delaforce 2011 Vintage Port is a distinguished wine that has garnered positive reviews from critics:

Wine Spectator rated it 93 points, highlighting its "powerfully fruity" character, with "deep, rich flavors of dark plum, raspberry preserves and violet, accented by plenty of ripe, spicy notes." The review mentions that "dark chocolate and allspice accents linger on the long finish, revealing hints of cardamom and ginger," and suggests that it is best enjoyed from 2020 through 2040.

This vintage is characterized by its deep, nearly black color and powerful black currant and berry aromas. …
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Price: £79.95
Stock: 27 in Stock

Vintage Port , Douro

The 2011 vintage of Messias Vintage Port is considered a standout year, characterized by its depth, complexity, and ability to age gracefully. This vintage port is ready to open and enjoy now however, will also reward those who will age it further in the cellar. Drink now-2050+.

Tasting notes
Deep ruby colour with a hint of purple at the rim.Rich and complex aromas of ripe dark fruits, including blackberry, plum, and black cherry. Chocolate, black pepper and clove and occasional hints of violets or herbs. On the palate it is full-bodied and rich, with velvety tannins. Ripe fruit flavours linger on the palate, accompanied by notes of dark chocolate, tobacco, and a hint of oak. …
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Price: £119.00
Stock: 19 in Stock

Colheita Port, Douro

The 2011 Messias Colheita Port represents a rich and mature expression of a cask-aged Port, offering a taste of Portuguese winemaking heritage and the nuanced flavours that come from extended barrel aging.

Tasting notes:
The extensive barrel ageing has given this port wine a tawny colour with a reddish hue. Its complex aroma includes dried fruits, nutty notes, caramel, and hints of spice and vanilla. The texture is smooth, elegant, and has a long, lingering finish.

Serving & Food Pairing
Colheita Ports are ready-to drink and do not require decanting. Best enjoyed slightly chilled at 12-13ºC they will work wonders if pairing with treacle tart, crème brulee or nut based desserts, like hazelnut praline. …
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Price: £28.95
Stock: 38 in Stock

"Cuco" 12 year aged Oloroso Sherry
Barbadillo D.O Jerez
Half Bottle 37.5cl

This Oloroso Sherry is mahogany in colour. Pleasant aroma reminiscent of noble oak from its ageing period and dried fruit. Mouth-filling and beautifully dry on the palate. This wine is aged using oxidative ageing, such as this oloroso, can remain in perfect organoleptic condition many years after bottling, even once the bottle has been opened.

Serving Suggestion: Serve around 14-17 degrees Celsius with game casseroles. If you feel adventurous try this oloroso with lamb curry.
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Price: £21.95
Stock: 5 in Stock

Sobrero, Piedmont

Barolo is known as the 'king of wines' and is made from the Nebbiolo grape. Heady aromas of rose, leather, vanilla, cherry, pepper, cranberry, strawberry. Fruits are perfectly knitted with the tannins and acidity. It's a powerful wine but remarkably subtle. Don't underestimate it and certainly serve it with food to show at it's best. Nebbiolo has naturally high tannins and acidity, so it will take on full-flavoured, rich foods no problem at all.
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Price: £69.00
Stock: 16 in Stock

Gigi Rosso - Riserva dell'Ulivo - Arione, Piedmont

Gigi Rosso winery sits in Castiglione Falletto, in the heart of Barolo land. It carries the name of its founder Gigi, one of Barolo’s and Langhe pioneers. The next generation, Maurizio and his son Andreas are now managing Gigi Rosso winery. The passage to the second and third generation brings energy and new ideas to the business. As Gigi expressed in his own words: “I was born in the vineyards. I grew up in the vineyards. And the vineyards are my heart and soul. The Langhe are my home. This land gave me a very precious gift. As a thank you, every year, I harvest its fruits and look after them like a mother looks after her babies. …
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Price: £89.00
Stock: 24 in Stock

Vintage Port, Douro | Includes Barros gift box as illustrated
94 Points Wine Spectator

A 2011 Barros Vintage Port Wine.
In the same year Barros celebrated its 100th anniversary, the exquisite 2011 Barros Vintage Port surprised Kim Marcus of Wine Spectator with a "burst on the palate," being a "powerful and heavy" wine, with hints of "raspberries and blueberries, balanced with freshness and acidity." For this American critic, this wine is "distinct, revealing powerful notes of smoke and spices in a refined finish." Recommended by the critic, this wine is ready to drink now.
*** 94 Points Wine Spectator ***


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Price: £79.95
Stock: 17 in Stock

Castello di Brolio Vin Santo, Barone Ricasoli, Tuscany
Sweet Wine | 50cl In Presentation tube

Still produced using the traditional methods, Castello di Brolio Vin Santo captures the true essence of one of the “historic” grapes of the area - Malvasia del Chianti.
The wine golden-amber colour, The nose reveals shades of honey, liquorice and tobacco. On the palate it is complex, sweet, lingering, with hints of coffee, honey, almonds and raisins.

Food & Wine Pairing:
This wine is perfect to complete the meal, both as a digestif, or in combination with desserts, ice cream and fruit.

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Price: £44.95
Stock: 12 in Stock

Haut Medoc, Cru Borgeois, Bordeaux

The 2011 Caronne is a very impressive rustic style classic claret. it boasts a moderate peppery nose. Very tannic with spicy black fruits. Impressive on the palate with well-balanced with raspberry and a touch of black pepper and burnt toast. Good density with a simple, corpulent finish. An easy drinking high quality wine.

Château Caronne Ste Gemme is a notable wine estate in the Haut-Médoc appellation of Bordeaux, France. Covering about 45 hectares, the vineyard thrives on gravelly soils that are ideal for cultivating Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, and Petit Verdot. This family-owned estate, …
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Price: £38.95
Stock: 36 in Stock

Vintage Port, Douro
IMPERIAL BOTTLE (6 Litre) in oak case

A rare 6Lt bottle of the 2011 Vintage Port Wine from Cockburn Port.

"Great nose here with flowers, leaves and a wet earth character. Full body, lightly sweet with a massive finish. This is muscular, toned and intense. Superb: the greatest ever vintage Port from here! This is tasting much better than from barrel. 3,000 cases produced of this mechanically trodden wine. Try after 2024." 98 Points James Suckling
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Price: £895.00
Stock: 1 in Stock

Vintage Port IMPERIAL BOTTLE 6.0L

This 2011 Vintage Port Wine from Croft comes from the near perfect viticultural conditions in the Douro Valley and Croft's highly regarded Quinta da Roêda during 2011. This Quinta always forms the core around which Croft craft their Vintage Port blend, yet in this excellent year all of the blend's components have been sourced from here, producing a scented, exotic and lusciously opulent style. In the words of wine-maker David guimareans, the high perfomance of Quinta da Roêda gave this vintage 'an additional layer of density and depth of flavour' with silky, integrated tannins and powerful grip on the finish. …
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Price: £850.00
Stock: 1 in Stock

Vintage Port HALF BOTTLE 37.5cl

Reviews
"Very inky in hue, this is very tight indeed, with classic Dow dryness/austerity – firm tannins and a yet to be mined concentrated seam of minerals, black currant, berry and cherry. At this very early stage of its life, it means you are more conscious of the spirit, but this positively unshowy Port plainly has a long life ahead given its deep reserves of fruit and imposing structure. Impressively hewn."Sarah Ahmed www.thewinedetective.co.uk

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Price: £89.00
Stock: 1 in Stock

Vintage Port, Douro
***19.5 Points- JancisRobinson.com***
***97-99 Points- RobertParker.com***

RARE MAGNUM FORMAT

Fonseca declares its vintages only in the most exceptional of years, and in 2011, like many, Fonseca benefitted from a perfect ending to the growing season, ensuring optimum ripeness for their grapes. This allowed deep, powerful and aromatic wines to be made on each of the Fonseca Quintas in the Távora and Pinhão valleys. 2011 has thus given Fonseca another opportunity to express the best characteristics of its vintage port to conoisseurs: its concentration of black fruits, its firm tannic grip, its dense velvety texture and its vibrant aromatics. It bears the promise of many years of development in bottle. …
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Price: £285.00
Stock: 3 in Stock

Vintage Port, Douro

The 2011 Vintage Port Wine from Fonseca has been described as "heady, opulent nose. Completely enveloping, Smells as though there is going to be the most fabulous texture. Wow! All stops pulled out for this one. It's all absolutely gorgeous intensity of sweet fruit on the front palate and then gradually the schist and structure reveal themselves. This is really wonderful stuff. So tempting to sip it decades before it is ready." Jancisrobinson.com

Fonseca declares its vintages only in the most exceptional of years, and in 2011, like many, Fonseca benefitted from a perfect ending to the growing season, ensuring optimum ripeness for their grapes. …
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Price: £99.00
Stock: 7 in Stock

Vintage Port
*** 95-97 Points- Wine Advocate ***

The Graham’s 2011 Vintage Port Wine is a profound and complex wine of incredible intensity. Purple-black to the rim, this wine gives fine aromas of blue-violets, black China tea and ripe red fruit. On the palate, it offers an initial taste of powerful and vigorous fruit, merging into flavours of bitter black chocolate and fine acidity with balanced and mature, but not dry, tannins. The final flavour is clean and perfectly defined. This wine will age well, evolving into a finely balanced and elegant wine in the decades to come.

"Though the nose is very tight, there’s an attractive whiff of violets and black pepper. …
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Price: £99.95
Stock: 3 in Stock

Graham's Stone Terraces, Vintage Port, Douro
In Presentation Case

A rare bottle of Graham's Stone Terraces Vintage Port.

At Graham’s Quinta dos Malvedos two parcels have produced consistently extraordinary wines which for years have been at the heart of Graham’s declared Vintage Ports.

Both Parcel #43, known as Port Arthur, and #37, Vinha dos Cardenhos, are planted on old stone-walled terraces, Port Arthur facing primarily east and Vinha dos Cardenhos facing north. The combination of their aspects and their being on stone walled terraces which hold and reflect the heat of the sun, makes the wines from these two parcels very different in character from the rest of the primarily south-facing soil-terraced quinta. …
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Price: £695.00
Stock: 4 in Stock

Single Harvest Tawny Port inl Gift Tube

Graham 2011 Single Harvest Tawny. On the 16th June 1373, Portugal and England signed the Anglo-Portuguese Treaty, a commitment to peace, friendship and cooperation between the two nations. 650 years later, this remains the world’s oldest unbroken alliance. To mark this momentous occasion, we have decided to bottle two casks of Graham’s 2011 Single Harvest Tawny Port. This limited edition port will be sold exclusively in the UK and Portugal.

This remarkable port was produced in one of the finest vintage years of the 21st century and this is the first occasion our family has chosen to bottle a Single Harvest Tawny Port from the auspicious 2011 vintage. …
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Price: £92.50
Stock: 8 in Stock

Single Harvest Tawny Port inl Gift Tube
450cl Rheoboam

Graham 2011 Single Harvest Tawny. On the 16th June 1373, Portugal and England signed the Anglo-Portuguese Treaty, a commitment to peace, friendship and cooperation between the two nations. 650 years later, this remains the world’s oldest unbroken alliance. To mark this momentous occasion, we have decided to bottle two casks of Graham’s 2011 Single Harvest Tawny Port. This limited edition port will be sold exclusively in the UK and Portugal.

This remarkable port was produced in one of the finest vintage years of the 21st century and this is the first occasion our family has chosen to bottle a Single Harvest Tawny Port from the auspicious 2011 vintage. …
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Price: £550.00
Stock: 12 in Stock

Vintage Port , Douro
***94-96 Points -Neil Martin for The Wine advocate***

This 2011 Vintage Port Wine from Niepoort is a blend of several Cima Corgo vineyards & (old field blend) varieties including; Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz, Tinto Cão, Tinta Francisca, Tinta Amarela, Sousão and Touriga Nacional and was 100% foot trodden in granite lagares with 100% stems. The wine was aged for 2 years in “toneis” and some pipes. A vibrant Port in colour and on the palate with lovely florality – violets – and black pepper lift to its well defined its sweet, ripe, juicy and intense swathes of berry and plum fruit. Long and persistent with a ripe but palpable chassis of tannins. Already so charming and elegant such is its exquisite balance – built for the long haul. …
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Price: £99.00
Stock: 8 in Stock

Vintage Port, Douro
Magnum Bottle
***94-96 Points -Neil Martin for The Wine advocate***

This 2011 Vintage Port Wine from Niepoort is a blend of several Cima Corgo vineyards & (old field blend) varieties including; Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz, Tinto Cão, Tinta Francisca, Tinta Amarela, Sousão and Touriga Nacional was 100% foot trodden in granite lagares with 100% stems. The wine was aged for 2 years in “toneis” and some pipes. A vibrant Port in colour and on the palate with lovely florality – violets – and black pepper lift to its well defined its sweet, ripe, juicy and intense swathes of berry and plum fruit. Long and persistent with a ripe but palpable chassis of tannins. Already so charming and elegant such is its exquisite balance – built for the long haul. …
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Price: £239.00
Stock: 1 in Stock