Full-bodied and wonderfully sweet, with intense aromas of raisin, raspberry and cherry and a long, long finish. It has a classic riverside location, with south facing vineyards, ensuring prolonged exposure to the sun. The palate is smooth, hedonistic and loaded with sweet red fruits such as strawberries and raspberries.

This is an extraordinary house that seems to have been particularly successful with its vintage port since 1977. Many of the Dow’s Colheitas available today have been aged for considerably longer and Dow’s has one of the finest collections of cask aged Ports in existence today. Dow’s Quinta do Bomfin Vintage Port is a deep, dark, and intense wine with aromas of ripe black fruit, plum, and dark chocolate. Three innovative robotic lagares have now been installed at the winery, and Vintage Port is made there in non-declared years and released en primeur. The grapes are normally extremely ripe at the time of picking giving spice and pepper to balance the dark chocolate flavours, as found in all Bomfim Ports.One of the Douro Valley’s finest vineyards, Bomfim is the heart of some of the company’s greatest Ports, having provided wines for Dow’s Vintage Ports ever since it was acquired in 1896. The very high percentage of Touriga Franca and Touriga Nacional planted on the estate result in the powerful aromas of mint and violets on the finest Ports from Bomfim. The vibrant purple colour of a great young Port has softened to a delicate green-gold after 20 long years in seasoned oak casks under the watchful eye of the master blender and the Dow’s head lodge man. Graham's Vintage Ports consistently attain the highest ratings in tastings and invariably attract very high bids at fine wine auctions.

It is still too soon to tell if 2021 will be declared but the fruit looks good with freshness and aromatics.This vintage Port is made from a blend of traditional Port grape varieties, including Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz, and Tinta Barroca. Importing wine from his home country, he was quickly accepted into London society and gained a fine reputation for his wines. Although individual vintage reports are still being written, some key vintages of the past 40 years have region-specific reports.

Vintage Ports such as the remarkable Dow 1896, the 1927, 1945, 1955, 1963, 1966, 1970, 1980 and the Dow 1994 are all legends in the history of this great wine. The Dow’s blenders will select particular wines that are set aside and destined to become these great Old Tawny Ports.Dow’s LBV has consistently won more awards that most other LBV Ports on the market and this wine has become recognized around the world as an industry standard for excellence, it is served in countless fine restaurants, on several major international airlines and most importantly it is widely appreciated by consumers in many countries around the world. The concentrated wines of 1991 are still for keeping, though Ports from the lighter houses are just beginning to emerge. This 2011 Vintage Port Wine from Dow's is "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. However they still allow for grapes to be trodden by foot and retain some original stone lagares as well. The terroir is so diverse, from mountain to maritime vineyards, hot and dry to cool and green; producing Port, light whites to full bodied reds and delicious rosés.

Port and cheese night taken to a new level with this beauty… Great legs, complex aromas of jam, figs, cherries and blackberry, raisin and chocolate….Located on the river at Pinhão, it is widely recognised as one of the finest properties in the Upper Douro.