The Vinha da Ponte is a field blend from a vineyard first planted in 1914 by the current owners grandfather. It has become one of Portugals priciest, best and most famous wines at this juncture. The 2004 Vinha da Ponte is unfiltered and was aged in French oak barriques for eighteen months. Fragrant and seductive, this is a wine you can have fun just smelling at the outset. Its nose is one of its best features and worth a couple of points right there. The tannins are relatively refined, but clearly there, providing grip on the lingering finish, and becoming more obvious as the wine airs out and wakes up. It has a lively, sunny feel to it, although some oak is obvious around the edges at the moment. The mid-palate is elegantly crafted, not particularly thick, but with significant aeration, it fleshes out, expands and becomes lusher and more flavorful. This does not wins first prize in any category depth, intensity, power but it is impeccably balanced, very flavorful, refined and a pleasure to drink. It projects a suave feel, and the purity of its bright, flavorful fruit is a wonderful thing. Utterly closed when I first opened it, showing pretty much nothing and requiring nearly four hours in a decanter, it finally began to expand in the glass and flesh out, showing more depth, flavor and intensity. The more it opened up, the more beautiful the fruit became. I look forward to great things from this wine as it evolves in the cellar. It is not always an obvious wine, although no one will ever mistake it for austere. Give it a chance, think about it, and sit with it. I am betting that this will become more complex and more interesting as it evolves in the cellar. There were approximately 250 cases produced. Drink 2010-2024. Rated 95. ‑ Mark Squires, Robert M. Parker, Jr.'s The Wine Advocate Issue 169, February 2007

Warre's "Traditional" Late Bottled Vintage Porto, a.k.a. LBV, remains among the very best of its type. Unfiltered and bottle-matured, to be sure, it's bottled four years after the vintage (two years later than vintage Porto) and then held in bottle until fit and ready for consumption. So much of what is so great about mature vintage Porto, but, sans the wait, Warre's '99 LBV is rarin’ to go. Deep, deep purple in color with aromas of dried stone fruits, say cherry and purple plum, and just a wisp of grape spirit; on aeration, there's nuance of dark chocolate and baking spices, too; composed and complete on the tongue, packing a gentle wallop of easy, broad chalky tannins; an engaging, fortifying wine, warm and pleasant to the finish.

Six Grapes is one of Graham’s original Porto blends. The rather curious and primitive depiction of bunches of grapes on the label has always been used on the cask ends in the cellar to identify the Six Grapes wines. In the Graham’s stocks a bunch of grapes signifies a wine of vintage quality and amongst these the six bunches denote the fact that this is the darkest and most full-bodied wine. It is a true expression of Graham’s house style with great richness and complexity – they refer to it as "the everyday Port for the Vintage Port drinker." Midnight ruby red in color with very primary aromas of ripe plum, prune, cherry, grape pomace, dried fig, tea leaf, bergamot, anise, cracked pepper, whoo, we could go on; rich, voluptuous even, on the tongue, then shows its warming grip with structure from velvety tannins; invigorating, fortifying, flavorful to the finish.

While vintage Porto is bottled some 18 months following the vintage, Tawny Porto is aged almost entirely in cask, during this process throwing off its dark purple color in favor of a more "tawny" hue, leaving its sediments in cask rather than in the bottle, it’s once grapey, plummy fruit transformed into something more nutty and, frankly, sublime: refined and complex aromas suggest candied pecans, walnuts, caramel, dried fruit, roasted coffee bean and more; dangerously smooth, with slippery, silky textures; just warm, with ultra-complex flavors that oh so satisfy; both viscous and vinous, this is Tawny Porto at its very height of quality.

This is a lovely, if youthful, 10 year tawny. Just sunset brickish orange-red at the edges; complex aromas suggestive of walnuts, almond, and crystallized red fruits; the texture is a very satisfying rich and silky with long, long flavors that conjure caramel, nut and crisp dried red fruits. A much to be savored tender sweet kiss of a bevy goodnight...