Your Favorite Vintage Overall

[Roy Hersh]

Only looking back to the past 9 vintages ... please pick one and if you'd like to share your reason for your choice, please feel free to elaborate.

[Daniel R.]

Chose 1999 because it is a very important vintage: arguably the year that the Douro region "exploded". Fortunate to still have plenty of Quinta do Vale Meão and Barca Velha 1999 to enjoy...

[Pedro Guimaraes]

As i haven´t tasted enough 2007´s to form an opinion on the vintage, i ´ll go for 2004...love the austerity and the promise for the future this vintage carries!!!!

[Roy Hersh]

Pedro,

The hardest thing is keeping your hands off of the wines from this vintage. Actually, that is my problem every time I go to my DOC Douro wine section as with the exception of 2 or 3 bottles all the rest are from the late 1990s and younger. Poor me!

[Moses Botbol]

I picked 2000 because that is what I see on the shelf the most; especially on lower end priced bottles that are great. To be honest, I don't take notice of vintages on Douro dry wines as long as there are a few years on the bottle.

[Ronald Wortel]

Looking back at these scores after some time, I wonder if people would vote for 2007 more now that they've been released for some time. In my opinion 2007 deserves a spot in the top 3 of vintages of the last decade, together with 2004 and 2001.