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H.M. Borges was founded in 1877 by Henrique Menezes Borges, a Funchal trader who devoted his life to sourcing and aging the finest wines from acros...

Blandy's traces back to 1811, when John Blandy, an Englishman, arrived on the island and entered the wine trade. More than two centuries later, the...

H.M. Borges has been producing Madeira since 1877, when Henrique Menezes Borges began sourcing the island's finest wines for aging and export, and ...

Bartholomew Broadbent launched Broadbent Selections in 1996, inspired by his father, wine critic Michael Broadbent, who once called Madeira his des...

Blandy's stands apart as the only one of Madeira's founding families still owning and running its original wine company, a tradition that dates bac...

Kopke is the oldest Port house still in operation, founded in 1638 when German diplomat Nicolau Kopke settled in Portugal and established Nicolau K...

Quinta de la Rosa sits above the Douro River near the village of Pinhão, purchased in 1906 as a christening gift for the family matriarch Claire Be...

Taylor Fladgate's Historical Collection celebrates the evolution of the wine bottle itself, with each release cast in a mold inspired by a distinct...

Belém's traces its name to 1932, when the last surviving member of the Henriques family, known locally as João de Belém, gave the label its identit...

Founded in 1842 by Franciscus Marius van der Niepoort, a Dutch entrepreneur who settled in Vila Nova de Gaia, Niepoort remained a small, family-run...

Blandy's dates back to 1811, when Englishman John Blandy settled in Funchal and entered the local wine trade. More than two centuries later, the fa...

Fonseca traces its roots to 1815, when Manuel Pedro Guimaraens acquired a controlling stake in the merchant firm Fonseca & Monteiro. Successive...

Croft's roots trace to English merchants who recognized the potential of Douro grapes for fortified wine, and the firm has traded from Vila Nova de...

Croft ranks among the oldest Port houses still active today, with origins tracing back to 1588 at the very start of the Anglo-Portuguese wine trade...

H.M. Borges was founded in 1877 by Henrique Menezes Borges, a Funchal merchant who devoted his career to sourcing and aging the island's best wines...

John Blandy arrived on Madeira in 1808 and, alongside his brothers Thomas and George, founded the company in 1811. More than two centuries and seve...

H.M. Borges was founded in 1877 by Henrique Menezes Borges, a Funchal merchant who dedicated his life to selecting and aging the finest wines produ...

Bartholomew Broadbent founded Broadbent Selections in 1996, drawing on the legacy of his father, the celebrated wine critic Michael Broadbent, who ...

Bartholomew Broadbent founded Broadbent Selections in 1996, following the passion of his father, celebrated wine critic Michael Broadbent, who call...

Taylor Fladgate's story begins with Job Bearsley, an English merchant who once ran the Ram Inn in London's Smithfield before arriving in Portugal i...

Fonseca traces its origins to 1815, when João dos Santos Fonseca began trading Port along the Douro, with the Guimaraens family soon taking control...

Fonseca traces its origins to 1815, when João dos Santos Fonseca began trading Port along the Douro, with the Guimaraens family taking control a fe...

The house of Graham's was founded in 1820 by brothers William and John Graham, and the Symington family, who joined the firm decades later, purchas...

NV Colombo Marsala Sweet arrives in a standard 750ml glass bottle, offering a reliable non-vintage blend of Sicilian fortified wine centered on a ...

Michel Gahier is a quiet but highly respected winemaker whose family has lived in the Jura since 1525, farming a 6.5-hectare domaine concentrated i...

Quinta do Crasto is one of the Douro's most historic estates, with written records of wine production dating back to 1615, its name derived from th...

H.M. Borges has remained a family-run Madeira house since 1877, when Henrique Menezes Borges began sourcing and aging select wines from across the ...

Fermented to completion then halted with grape spirit, this 2017 Vintage Port from Rozès captures the concentrated essence of a classic Douro vint...

Kopke is the oldest Port house in the world, founded in 1638 when Nicolau Kopke, a German merchant representing the Hanseatic League, settled in Po...

The 2019 Churchill’s Vintage Porto Quinta da Gricha delivers a distinctly drier and more structured profile among single-vineyard Vintage Ports, d...

Taylor Fladgate is widely regarded as the archetypal Port house, founded in 1692 and among the oldest of the original Port firms still operating to...

The 2018 Taylor Fladgate Vintage Port delivers restrained power and multi-decade ageing potential through a blend dominated by the house’s premier...

Dow's traces its name to the 1877 merger of Silva & Cosens with Dow & Co, when James R. Dow's tasting expertise, Edward da Silva's financia...

Maynard's takes its name from Walter Maynard, born in 1652, one of the first English merchants to ship Port wine from Oporto and an ancestor of the...

H.M. Borges was founded in 1877 by Henrique Menezes Borges, making it one of the oldest Madeira wine companies still in operation, and the family-r...

Dow's was founded in 1798 by the Portuguese merchant Bruno da Silva, and the Dow name entered the picture only later, when partner James Dow joined...

H.M. Borges was founded in 1877 by Henrique Menezes Borges, who spent his life sourcing the best wines produced across Madeira for careful aging, a...

Kopke is the oldest Port house in the world, founded in 1638 by Nicolau Kopke, a German merchant who arrived in Portugal representing the Hanseatic...

Domaine La Sobilane is a small estate in French Roussillon, near the Spanish border, run by Philippe Gayral and devoted to the region's tradition o...

Kopke is the oldest Port house still in operation, founded in 1638 by German merchants who settled in Porto and began trading wine along the Douro....

Kopke is the oldest Port house in the world, founded in 1638 when the German merchant Nicolau Kopke settled in Portugal as a representative of the ...

Kopke is the oldest Port house in the world, founded in 1638 by Nicolau Kopke, a German merchant who arrived in Portugal representing the Hanseatic...

The 2019 Quinta do Noval Nazionale stands apart from standard vintage ports due to its exclusive origin: a small, historical plot of ungrafted, pr...

Produced entirely from an estate vineyard perched above the Douro and Pinhão rivers, the 2018 Quinta Do Noval Vintage Port showcases concentrated ...

The 2010 Graham's Quinta dos Malvedos Vintage Port serves as a focused single-quinta expression from Portugal’s Upper Douro Valley, bottled indepe...

Niepoort was founded in 1842 by a Dutch merchant family and remains family-run today, based in the historic cellars of Vila Nova de Gaia. While the...

Niepoort has been making Port since 1842, when the house was founded by a Dutch merchant family in Vila Nova de Gaia, and it remains one of the las...

Blandy's traces its founding to 1811, when John Blandy first arrived on the island, and the family remains the only one among the Madeira trade's o...