Wine from Portugal

Wine Spectator, 94 points: Powerful, rich and refined, with a lithe mouthfeel and flavors of boysenberry, sandalwood, macerated cherry and damson plum. Very minerally as well, featuring loads of spicy notes on the wellstructured, lingering finish...

For The Love of Port, 95 points: Orange-amber color with a tawny edge. One can never have this Colheita too many times and at the rate I've opened bottles of this Krohn in the past year, I am going to run out within two years. It is an addicting Port, so...

Neal Martin's Wine Journal, 96 points: A magnificent Dow. A deep opaque purple/black colour. Very youthful in appearance. The nose is very pure and as primal as its appearance: blackberry, liquorice, black olive and an engaging sense of minerality. But it is...

MW Bob Campbell, 95 points: Lovely dense sweet fruit with chocolate, ripe berry, spice/anise and subtle caramel flavours. Great texture, very long. Handles alcohol well. Absolutely lovely wine with great potential.

Wine Spectator, 95 points: A fabulous nose of cassis and berries with hints of licorice. Full-bodied and lightly sweet with supersexy tannins and a long long finish. Very classy. Superb for Delaforce. Best after 2012. 4500 cases made. –JS

Wine Enthusiast, 97 points: Fonseca vintage Ports are always among the most attractive and long-lived. This 2003 conforms magnificently to that model. It is structured, rich, powerful and opulent. There are cassis and black fig flavors, as well as...

Wine Spectator, 95 points: Top 100: 1997, Rank: 15. A great surprise for the vintage. Displays fabulous concentration and complex character with it's layers of very sweet fruit, chocolate and cherry aromas and flavors. Full-bodied, with velvety...

Wine Enthusiast, 95 points: This marks the 17th vintage of this wine, a joint venture between the Douro-based Symington family and Bordeaux consultant Bruno Prats. Based entirely on fruit from Quintas de Roriz and Perdiz, this smooth, structured...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 95 points: The 2011 Garrafeira Quinta da Falorca Old Vines is remarkably elegant and mouth-coating, while still maintaining a graceful feel. It predictably tightens a bit on the finish as its backbone takes over, but the tannins are...

Wine Spectator, 99 points: This sports serious heft, with a core of brooding fig jam, ganache, Christmas pudding and pastis-soaked black currant notes, followed by a powerhouse finish of smoldering charcoal and tar. The feel is remarkably velvety...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 90 points: Croft never seems to get much publicity since the wines, while always very good, sometimes even excellent, never quite reach the superb level of the top houses in Oporto. However, Croft seems to do surprisingly well...

Antonio Galloni's Vinous, 99 points: Taylor’s 1863 Port Colheita is one of the wines Taylor’s purchased in cask when it acquired Wiese & Krohn in 2013. A fitting conclusion to this unforgettable dinner, the 1863 is simply huge on the palate, with magnificent...

Wineanorak, 92 points: Sweet spicy nose with earthy, cedary notes. Concentrated palate with some firm structure and dense fruit, as well as nice earthiness. Fresh finish. A little closed at the moment.