Port wines age in large, longish barrels called pipas, or pipes. 

Single Quinta Ports: Anything but Classic

Peter Moser, 17.02.2022

Port, the sweet, fortified wine from the Douro Valley, is usually blended from various grape varieties and vineyards. But these blends have a localised counterpart: Single Quinta Vintage Ports.

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Classic Vintage Ports are blends: of different grape varieties on the one hand and from several estates, or quintas, on the other. These quintas stand for the special components they typically add to the final Port blend: the wine of one quinta may provide aroma, another tannic backbone, yet another may bring elegance. These various but clearly defined components achieve the recognisable house style of the various big Port shippers: Taylor’s, Fonseca, Graham’s and so on.

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