For The Love Of Port

Doug In my opinion you can`t compare young ports (VP and LBV) with old ports (tawnies), although they have the same grapes the stages are diferent. In VP and LBV we want that they develope in botle, in the other hand tawnies develope in wood and go to bottle when are read to drink. You have to compa...

There are some reasons for the explosion of Douro red wines, here are some of them: - the new genaration of winemakers; - the good grapes that don`t have "beneficio"; - the small price that big companies pay for grapes without "beneficio"; - the interest of winegrowers to have th...

Roy,

As a winegrower I think it`s possible to have two or more consecitive declaration although some are better than others (see the exemple of Vesuvio).
To finnish I think it is comercial and markting reasons why big companies don`t declarate in row.

José Mendes