Since I'm new to FTLOP this may have been addressed before; however,
Why would a shipper put out a declared vintage, a LBV and a SQVP in the same year; i.e., Fonseca in 2000?
Ford
Declared Vintage/LBV/SQVP in samr year
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Ford,
Classic Vintage Port is made from a blend of wines from different vineyards and different vats. The quantities of each component that goes into the final blend will not necessarily use up the entire supply of each individual component. By way of a simplistic example:
1. ShipperA produces 3 different high quality wines from his 3 Qunitas
2. After ageing these wines for two years in vats 1, 2 and 3 he produces a Classic VP using all of Vat1, 20% of Vat2 and 50% of Vat3.
3. The 80% left in Vat1 is of sufficiently high quality to be used to produce an SQVP.
4. The 50% left in VAT 3 is not of high enough quality to produce an SQVP so it is blended with some other wines from the same Vintage and aged for a further 2 years and then bottled as an LBV
The truth will be far more complex than the above description but I believe that is the basic concept.
Derek
Classic Vintage Port is made from a blend of wines from different vineyards and different vats. The quantities of each component that goes into the final blend will not necessarily use up the entire supply of each individual component. By way of a simplistic example:
1. ShipperA produces 3 different high quality wines from his 3 Qunitas
2. After ageing these wines for two years in vats 1, 2 and 3 he produces a Classic VP using all of Vat1, 20% of Vat2 and 50% of Vat3.
3. The 80% left in Vat1 is of sufficiently high quality to be used to produce an SQVP.
4. The 50% left in VAT 3 is not of high enough quality to produce an SQVP so it is blended with some other wines from the same Vintage and aged for a further 2 years and then bottled as an LBV
The truth will be far more complex than the above description but I believe that is the basic concept.
Derek