This is a tasting of 2024 Vintage Ports – a rare opportunity to try before you buy.
We will be taking orders on the day, and wines will be shipped later in the year.
Event Details at a Glance:
Date: Friday, 12th June 2026
Time: 6.30 pm or 7.30 pm
Venue: Fareham Wine Cellar, 55 High Street, Fareham, PO16 7BG
Booking: Please telephone 01329 822733 or email [email protected]
You must RSVP – numbers are very limited if you wish to attend.
Please specify which you would prefer – there are two time slots 6.30 until 7.30 pm & 7.30 until 8.30 pm.
This exclusive tasting offers Port wine collectors and enthusiasts a rare opportunity to taste exceptional en primeur samples from the world’s greatest Port Houses, including Taylor’s, Graham’s, Dow’s, Niepoort and Fonseca, alongside ultra-rare expressions like Graham’s The Stone Terraces and Capela de Quinta do Vesuvio.
Join us to taste this vintage first-hand and secure your allocations before these remarkable wines are shipped later in the year.
It has been ages!. The 2024 Port vintage is the first general classic Vintage Port declaration since 2017 (a 7-year gap, the longest since WWII). It followed a near-perfect growing season in the Douro with a warm summer with even ripening, followed by a cooler autumn that preserved freshness and balance.
Port producers have described the vintage as a return to classical Douro harmony, producing elegant, precise, structured wines with great aromatics, fine tannins, natural acidity, and strong ageing potential, rather than the more powerful, heat-driven styles of recent years.
The major Port Houses (Symington, Fladgate, etc.) have declared it across their portfolios, calling the wines refined, complex and outstanding.
2024 Vintage Ports To Taste will include:
Quinta de Roriz
Smith Woodhouse
Warres
Dows
Grahams
Grahams The Stone Terraces
Cockburns
Quinta do Vesuvio
Capela de Quinta do Vesuvio
Niepoort
Taylors
Taylors Sentinels
Fonseca
Croft
