Dow’s 2024 Vintage Port 75cl En Primeur Offer

Description

Dow’s 2024 Vintage Port | Classic Douro Declaration

If Warre’s 2024 is the elegant one, Dow’s 2024 is the powerhouse. This vintage delivers exactly what the house is known for: a dark, structured Port wine built for the long haul. This is classic Dow’s in a classic vintage year.

The Symington family have publicly compared the 2024 Port vintage to 2011 and 1945—bold words, but the wine backs them up. Linear and structured, with graphite, resinous rockrose, and dark fruit intensity, this is a wine that needs time. Patience will be rewarded with something exceptional.

En Primeur Offer

This is an “En Primeur” offer or pre-order from Fareham Wine Cellar. The 2024 Vintage Ports will be shipped in Autumn 2026.

Dow’s 2024 Vintage Port Winemaking

For over two centuries, the name of Dow has been associated with some of the finest Ports from the vineyards of the Upper Douro Valley, and the 2024 follows that tradition faithfully. The blend is 40% Touriga Franca, 35% Touriga Nacional, 15% old vine field blend and 10% Alicante Bouschet, which was fermented in lagar and matured in oak casks.

Dow’s Port Vineyards

The fruit for this wine comes principally from Dow’s two flagship estates: Quinta do Bomfim in the Cima Corgo and the more remote Quinta da Senhora da Ribeira in the Douro Superior. Senhora da Ribeira’s high proportion of low-yielding old vines, producing less than 1kg of fruit per vine, brings exceptional concentration, whilst Bomfim provides the structural backbone that has underpinned Dow’s Vintage Ports since the estate was acquired in 1896.

Dow’s 2024 Vintage Port – Key Facts

• Provenance: Quinta do Bomfim, Quinta da Senhora da Ribeira, Quinta do Santinho
• Grape Varieties: Touriga Franca: 40%, Touriga Nacional: 35%, Douro Field Blend Old Vines (vinhas velhas): 15%, Alicante Bouschet: 10%

Wine Specification

• Alcohol by volume: 20% v/v (20°C)
• Total acidity: 4.50 (g/l)
• Baumé: 3.40
• Bottling: Bottled during May 2026 with no filtration
• Winemakers: Charles Symington, Pedro Sousa (Bomfim), Ricardo Carvalho (Senhora da Ribeira)
• Production: 5535 cases (9L) – 17% of Dow’s total vineyard production in 2024

Symington Family Estates 2024 Vintage Port Declaration

The Symington family have declared 2024 as a classic Vintage Port year, their first in seven years, and one that wine lovers have been quietly hoping for.

After a run of harvests defined by heat and unpredictability, the Douro returned in 2024 to something closer to its traditional self. Gradual ripening, cool nights and a well-timed harvest gave fourth-generation Head Winemaker Charles Symington and his team the raw material they needed to produce wines of real elegance and restraint, the kind that reward patience in the cellar as much as excitement at the table.

Seven Vintage Ports have been bottled from this exceptional year. The core declarations – Warre’s, Dow’s, Graham’s and Cockburn’s – are joined by the magnificent Quinta do Vesúvio, one of the Douro’s most celebrated single-quinta estates. Two rare micro-terroir expressions complete the collection: Graham’s The Stone Terraces and the ultra-limited Capela da Quinta do Vesúvio, both produced in tiny quantities from some of the Valley’s most remarkable vineyard sites. In addition to the family’s principal Vintage Ports, they have also released a small quantity of Smith Woodhouse and Quinta de Roriz 2024 Vintage Port.

Charles Symington, Head Winemaker and Joint Managing Director, commented, “The 2024 Vintage Ports whisper rather than shout. After years of heat-driven power, these wines are characterised by their precision: taut structures wrapped in pure, crystalline fruit. This is Douro elegance with backbone, and refinement with staying power. It was worth the wait.”