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Graham’s Shows Renewed Tawny Port Range in Holland

September 4th, Huis de Salentein, Nijkerk, Holland: earlier this week Pedro Leite, one of our market managers, hosted an informal workshop to present the recently re-launched Graham’s Tawny range — consisting of 5 cask-aged tawny Ports — to a captive … Continue reading

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Graham’s 1952 Single Harvest Tawny Port

Graham’s is very pleased to announce the release of the Graham’s 1952 Single Harvest Tawny Port in a special limited edition bottling to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Whereas most Tawny Ports offered for sale … Continue reading

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Symington Family Estates Announce 2010 Quinta Vintage Ports

The Symington family are pleased to announce their decision to bottle 2010 Vintage Ports from our top quintas.  Two 2010 Vintage Ports will be released shortly for purchase en primeur:  the Quinta do Vesuvio and Dow’s Quinta da Senhora da … Continue reading

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Aromas and Flavours

Dominic Symington is on the road again, this week in São Paulo, Brazil at Expovinis, showing a range of Graham’s Ports including Six Grapes and the Graham’s 1983 Vintage, 10 and 20 Year Old Tawnies, and our 1969 Single Harvest … Continue reading

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Pairing Port and Cigars

Graham’s 1994 Vintage Port has recently won an unusual accolade:  that of the best Vintage Port to pair with the Habano cigar Romeo y Julieta Belicoso. Like Port, fine cigars are unique products of their region, agriculture, and processes of … Continue reading

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Vertically Speaking

Readers may recall our mentioning Rupert Symington’s visit to Vancouver last March, where, together with Roy Hersh, he presented “Elegance, Power and Complexity” a vertical tasting of eight of Graham’s Vintage ports since 1970.   If our readers are not yet … Continue reading

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The Grapes

At Graham’s Quinta dos Malvedos, just above the winery, there are a few short terraces which were planted in 2000 with just one or two rows each of the most important grape varieties used in Port wines. One of the … Continue reading

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The Vintage Port Site

Graham’s and Symington Family Estates are very pleased to announce the re-launch of The Vintage Port Site. As owners and makers of Graham’s as well as many more of the world’s most admired Port brands, and with a family history … Continue reading

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Quinta dos Malvedos Vintage 2009

We are very proud to announce that Graham’s has bottled our very first wine whose making was chronicled in this blog:  a Quinta dos Malvedos Vintage 2009. You may recall that 2009 was a challenging year.  We had had 3 … Continue reading

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Six Grapes

Graham’s Six Grapes Port is one of our longest standing signature wines.  Strictly – by IVDP standards – it is a Reserve Ruby.  In fact, it is something much much more.  Most Port producers’ Reserve Ruby ports are blended from … Continue reading

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