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Port – liquid history

Julia Harding
Julia Harding MW
Thursday 14 December 2023
Port Arthur east-facing

Whether you’re in the market for 2021s and 2020s to lay down in your cellar, tawnies for tonight or ancient elixirs that’ll blow your socks off, we have suggestions. Pictured here, the east-facing Port Arthur vineyard, one of the two Quinta dos Malvedos plots that constitute Graham's Stone Terraces.

Since 2021 was not a universally declared vintage, we rounded up a diverse array of recently released ports for this report, from white port to very old tawnies and a few older vintages, including a handful of 2020s, all tasted over the last few months.

However, the 2021s that have been...