Tom reminds me that Malvedos has been both!Tom Archer wrote: ↑Mon Apr 27, 2020 1:02 am Take Fonseca Guimaraens - a second wine in undeclared years, but not linked to any quinta - VP or SQVP?
Or Croft VP, which sometimes comes entirely from Q. Roeda..
If you look carefully, you'll notice that prior to (IIRC) 1999 bottles of Graham's Malvedos Vintage Port were labeled just like that. "Malvedos" was a 2nd label brand for Graham's, not a single quinta Port. Starting in 1999 they were labeled as Graham's Quinta dos Malvedos Vintage Port. A subtle distinction, but one that means that from 1999 onward all of the grapes used in the Port are from Quinta dos Malvedos itself.
Except that Graham's actually started doing that with the 2nd label "Malvedos" vintage Port some time earlier in the 1990s! (I've heard as early as 1987, so don't actually know for sure when.) So a 1995 Graham's Malvedos Vintage Port is labeled as a second label, but is actually a single quinta.
And then to further the confusion, Quinta dos Malvedos today is much larger than it was in, say, 1970. The Symingtons have purchased adjacent quintas over the years and have added them to Quinta dos Malvedos. Which means that a Port that qualifies as "Quinta dos Malvedos Vintage Port" today might not have qualified for that label 50 years ago.
Confused yet?
