1863 Taylor’s Single Harvest Port
History in a Bottle
The Yeatman’s Chief Executive Officer, Adrian Bridge, offered members of the British press a remarkable and unique tasting opportunity at the end of the Taste Portugal 2014/15 first night feast in Porto
‘Priced at €3500 a bottle – or €120 a glass – this intense Port is strong on the nose, and with layers of flavour including liquorice, chocolate, wood and oak’
1863 WAS THE year of Gettysburg – the fundamentally deciding battle in the US Civil War. It was also the year that the London Underground – the first underground system in the world – was opened. Archduke Franz Ferdinand was born, the Red Cross was founded and rugby became separated from football. It was also an exceptionally good year for Port Wine in the Douro.
Two casks of exceptional Port Wine from this vintage have recently been decanted into 1600 bottles by Taylor’s, under the direction of Adrian Bridge. Concentrated down to around 20% alcohol, with twice as much residual sugar as a 10 Year Old Tawny, this wine also dates back to before Phylloxera hit the Douro region in 1868.
Priced at €3500 a bottle – or €120 a glass – this intense Port, strong on the nose, and with layers of flavour including liquorice, chocolate, wood and oak, is being presented in Italian glass decanters, with subtly branded stoppers, and a velvet-lined, hand-lacquered walnut box. Only 320 bottles have been allocated to the UK market. 1863 really was quite an exceptional year.
