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Location: 41.165167, -7.622194
Notes: In existence since at least 1848 (when it appeared on Barron Forrester’s map), this independently owned Quinta formerly supplied wines to Cockburn’s and Taylor’s before becoming a major part of Churchill Graham when the shipper was founded in 1981. A number of SQVP have been commercially produced in secondary years.
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Location: 41.179203, -7.380528
Notes: Owned by the Morais family since 1919 who were responsible for planted red grapes there for the first time, Alegria is now one of the main quintas for Quevedo, a relatively young Port company founded in 1991. One of small number of Quintas still to have a railway station and, at the bottom of the property, between the railroad and the river a wide extension of orange and lemon trees.
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Location: 41.134452, -7.298183
Notes: Now known as Quinta do Arnozelo. First mentioned in 1527 due to the presence of a chapel to Nossa Senhora da Ribeira on the Quinta, Arnozola was extensively replanted in redeveloped in the 19th Century by Dona Antónia Ferreira. In the 20th Century it was acquired by José Saraiva de Aguilar in 1936 from Ferreira’s family and then by a new company, Sociedade Agrícola Quinta do Arnozelo, in the 1990s who carried out extensive replanting in 1992. In 2004 it was purchased by Sogevinus who now use wines from the Quinta in the Cálem. Reportedly the Taylor Fladgate Partnership was also interested in acquiring the property but bid a third less than Sogevinus.
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Location: 41.165749, -7.574097
Notes: The Quinta with the “Good View” was once home to Barron Forrester, and has contributed to the Port of his company (Offley Forrester) since then, although the property was owned independently until 1979. The importance of Boa Vista for Offley was such that its vintage port was labelled as Offley Boa Vista, long before it became a true SQVP in 1979.
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Location: 41.19, -7.529444
Notes: The Quinta of the “good end” which has been associated with Dow’s since the 1890s. Now a significant contributor to the general Dow’s blend, with SQVP commercially produced in secondary years since 1978.
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Location: 41.13728, -7.743623
Notes: One half of Quinta de Santa Eufémia which was recently divided into separate properties (the Quinta and the Casa). Now an independent producer of the full range of Ports, including a number of unusual aged white Ports.
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Location: 41.143970, -7.332457
Notes: Planted in 1845 by the Barão de Seixo and owned by Messias since 1956. Now used it both the regular Messias blends and also to produce a SQVP. Unusually the SQVP is sometimes produced in years of general declarations alongside the regular Messias blend.
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Location: 41.218001, -7.569773
Notes: Dating from the 17th, Casa da Calçada, owned by the Villas Boas family makes a small number of Ports and Douro table-wines in collaboration with Niepoort.
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Location: 41.150278, -7.304167
Notes: A long-standing component of the Cockburn’s blend but only purchased by the company in 1989. Since then SQVP has been produced in secondary years, with the exception of 2007 when both a regular Cockburn’s and a Canais were sold.
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Location: 41.181767, -7.532882
Notes: An old Quinta, which can be traced back to at least 1759, Carvalhãs came to be owned by the Real Companhia Velha in 1975. SQVP has been produced in secondary years since 1989, in addition to a Quinta das Carvalhãs basic tawny.
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Location: 41.140528, -7.814584
Notes: Dating back to at least 1885, now an independent quinta which produces a small range of Ports and Douro table wines.
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Location: 41.173405, -7.379615
Notes: The modern Castelinho was created in 1848 when the Quintas of Castelinho, Azenha, Vau and Pelão were merged into one large property. It was acquired by the Saraiva family in 1969 who started producing SQVP independently from 1986 when Port could first be exported directly from the Douro. The company now produces the full range of Ports and Douro table wine.
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Location: 41.046476, -7.060368
Notes: The main quinta of Duorum, a Port shipper which was established by João Portugal Ramo and José Maria Soares Franco in January 2007 to make high-quality table wines and vintage port from the Cima Corgo and Douro Superior. SQVP is produced in secondary years.
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Location: 41.218614, -7.554281
Notes: Formerly three separate properties which provided wines to Fonseca, Sandeman and Ferreira. Since 1980 has been owned by the Symington Family Estates who have used it in their Warre blend, and produced a SQVP in secondary years.
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Location: 41.177588, -7.384593
Notes: A small property of 9 hectares, Colmaça has been producing Vintage Port and LBV independently since the start of the 21th Century.
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Location: 41.086096, -7.517738
Notes: On the site of a monastery which dates back to 987, São Pedro has been owned since 1986 by the French company Vranken Pommery who produce a range of Ports from the Quinta for export to France.
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Location: 41.170708, -7.846706
Notes: Côtto was included in the first demarcation (1756) and was replanted in 1932 with a view to producing high quality table wines, with a small range of Ports also produced, independently.
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Location: 41.163164, -7.547371
Notes: An independently owned quinta which has provided the major component of Delaforce’s vintages since the middle of the 20th Century. SQVP has been commercially produced in secondary years since 1978.
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Location: 41.165833, -7.628056
Notes: First mentioned in 1615, Quinta do Crasto now independently produces Vintage Port but is perhaps better known for its high-quality Douro table wines.
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Location: 41.192933, -7.553562
Notes: One of the oldest Quintas in the Douro, with records dating back to 1513. For much of the 19th Century it was the main component of Hunt, Roope & Co.’s Tuke Holdsworth Port. Between 1918 and 1938 it was used to make Graham’s before supplying Ferreira. Complete control of the Quinta was achieved by the Newman family (who had had a long-standing interest in it) in 1956 who produced a Port under their family’s name (which oddly, before 1966, was aged in Newfoundland before being shipped back to Europe for sale). In 1979 it began to be managed by Cockburn’s who used it to produce SQVP in secondary years. Since 1987 this was shipped under the Martinez label, though the 2000 was shipped under the name of the Quinta alone. The Quinta was sold in 2007 to the Taylor Fladgate Partnership for €3.25million.
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Location: 41.019914, -7.112854
Notes: A young Quinta, planted on land previously used to grow cereals in 1974 by José António Ramos Pinto Rosas. Designed with the latest innovations of the time, it was the first Quinta to be entirely mechanised, with block vertical planting by grape variety throughout. It is now a major part of Ramos Pinto’s blend, with a Single Quinta 10 Year Old Tawny being produced.
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Location: 41.251589, -7.529390
Notes: Quinta do Fojo is best known for its high-quality Douro table wines but Vintage Ports have occasionally been produced.
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Location: 41.189337, -7.549807
Notes: Named “Foz” (“Mouth”) due to its location at the mouth of the Pinhão river, this Quinta (which dates to the 18th Century) has been owned by Cálem since 1885 and has been a significant component in its wines since then. SQVP has been commercially produced since 1982, in secondary years.
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Location: 41.189894, -7.471261
Notes: Purchased by Churchill Graham in 1999, Quinta da Gricha is now used as a major part of the Churchill Vintage blend; to make SQVP in minor years; and to produce Douro table wines. The winery and lagares date back to 1852.
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Location: 41.174067, -7.580298
Notes: Infantado was established 1816, and used to supply wines to Taylor’s and Sandeman. A particularly innovated Quinta, it was one of the first to start selling the full range of Port independently in 1979. Other unusual features are the use of organic farming; a single varietal Vintage Port (produced in 1991); and high-quality LBVs which are only made in years when a VP is not declared out of what would be the VP blend.
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Location: 41.173534, -7.379529
Notes: The “Quinta of the Boar” was extensively replanted in 1985. Since 2000 it has produced a range of Port and Douro tablel wines independently.
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Location: 41.205385, -7.553304
Notes: Developed by Borges & Irmão who bought it in 1906, Junco was sold to Taylor Fladgate Partnership in 1998. It is now used in the Taylor’s blend. A Single Quinta Colheita was produced in 1970.
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Location: 41.163961, -7.769139
Notes: Named after a Roman-period Jewish statute found on its roof, Quinta do Judeu has been owned by the Alves de Carvalho family sine 1932 who now use it to make high-quality table wines independently.
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Location: 41.020531, -7.011573
Notes: A modern quinta, planted in 1979, Quinta da Leda was restored in the early years of this Century by Sogrape Vinhos, who now use it for the production of tables wines for the Casa Ferreirinha brand.
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Location: 41.156169, -7.512782
Notes: A particularly large Quinta which has been an important part of the Graham’s blend since 1924. Formerly independently owned, it was leased to Graham’s in 2002 for 25 years.
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Location: 41.159271, -7.508876
Notes: A small property which is owned by Smith Woodhouse and provides an important part of the Smith Woodhouse blend. SQVP has been commercially produced since 1988, in secondary years.
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Location: 41.215833, -7.440556
Notes: The Quinta of the “bad ways” has been associated with Graham’s since being purchased by the Graham family in 1890 and has become an increasingly important component of its Ports since then. A “Graham’s Mavledos” has been produced since 1950 in secondary years, although this has only been marked as a SQVP (“Graham’s Quinta dos Malvedos”) since 1998, as, before then, it was often a blended wine.
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Location: 41.148805, -7.642552
Notes: A long-established Quinta, which traces its history back to 1496, which was bought and extensively refurbished by Niepoort in 1987. It now contains a large, state-of-the-art winemaking facility, with the wines from the Quinta being used in the Niepoort blend and to make a number of Douro table wines.
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Location: 41.162114, -7.595608
Notes: Although the date 1764 appears over the property, the Quinta is older, being included in the first demarcation of the Douro (1756). The property was bought by the Real Companhia Velha in 1987 who sold it to Burmester in 1991. Burmester ran the Quinta as a separate label, producing SQVP in both major and lesser years. The Quinta was then acquired in 1999 by the Amorim family (better known as leading cork producers) who, since 2005 have been operating independently, producing a small range of Port and Douro table wines.
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Location: 41.213594, -7.536122
Notes: Not a separate Quinta but a small part of the Noval property, planted in the early-to-mid 1920s. It is notable for being one of the few post-phylloxera vineyards where the grapes are grown ungrafted (i.e. on their own, rather than American, root-stock). In most major years, Noval produces a premium Vintage Port from the Nacional wines, which usually commands 10 times the price of the normal Noval.
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Location: 41.213333, -7.537778
Notes: First mentioned in 1715, Quinta do Noval is the most prominent Port company to be named after its main Quinta. This was primarily due to the work of António José da Silva who bought the Quinta in 1894 and spent the next 30 years developing it and marketing the wines. His descendants (laterly the van Zellers) continued to run the company until 1993 when it was sold to the insurance company AXA. A full range of Ports are produced, with those made on the Quinta being labelled as “Quinta do Noval” and those blended from other properties simply as “Noval”.
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Location: 41.155733, -7.798340
Notes: First mentioned in 1738, Pacheca has been independently owned by the Pimentel family since 1903. Much of the grapes are used to make Douro table wine. The Port from the Quinta was formerly sold to Cockburn’s but since about 2000, a small range of Ports have been independently made and sold.
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Location: 41.146798, -7.573131
Notes: Panascal was acquired by Fonseca in 1978, although the wines from it had been an important component in the Fonseca Vintage Port for at least 20 years before that. SQVP has been produced occasionally, in secondary years.
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Location: 41.235075, -7.531246
Notes: Bought by a German, Dieter Bohrmann, in 1991, a range of table wines and Port were made at Passadouro in collaboration with Niepoort until 2004 when they started to be produced entirely independently.
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Location: 41.162001, -7.570374
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Location: 41.243728, -7.555164
Notes: The eponyous property of Quinta do Portal, a shipper set up in 1991 Mansilha family who have been historic owners of number of properties in the area. A range of Port, Douro table wine and fortified Moscatel are produced, although the majority of the wines for the Quinta do Portal vintage blend are grown not on Portal but on Quinta dos Muros.
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Location: 41.173574, -7.564430
Notes: Porto was extensively developed in the mid-19th Century by Dona Antónia Ferreira, who purchased it in 1863. Since then it has remained associated with Ferreira, who now use it to make a Single Quinta 10 Year Old Tawny.
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Location: 41.155208, -7.835333
Notes: Bought by Manoel Poças in 1923 and associated with his company, Poças, since 1988, this Quartas is now mostly used for winemaking and maturing.
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Location: 41.159582, -7.522802
Notes: Purchased by Wiese & Krohn in 1989 as their main Douro property for producing Port wine.
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Location: 41.185146, -7.530613
Notes: Planted in the early 18thP Century, Roeda was purchased by John Fladgate (the middle anamed partner in the Taylor Fladgate Partnership) in 1862 who was subsequently elevated to the title of “Barão de Roêda”. When Fladgate’s daughter married Charles Wright of Croft’s in 1875, the property became associated with that shipper and became the key component of its vintage blends. SQVP is produced in minor and some major years.
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Location: 41.202213, -7.497236
Notes: One of the largest properties in the Douro, Romaneira has had a long and complex history. Some of the earliest SQVP known to have been exported (a Romaneira 1861) were produced on the Quinta. For much of the 20th Century the Quinta was controlled by Borges & Irmão, through the personal ownership of a director, António Borges Vinagre whose family started producing a range of Ports from the Quinta, independently, in 1985.
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Location: 41.194875, -7.477934
Notes: Historically one of the most famous Quintas in the Douro, with a long history beginning with the building of a shooting lodge on the site by a Scot, Robert Archibald, in the early 18th Century. Roriz was the first Quinta from which Single Quinta wines were exported, by C.N. Kopke (perhaps as early as the late 18th Century, though bottles of SQVP from 1832 are known). In the early 20th Century, the wines were sold under the Roriz label until the 1930s when they were blended into Ferreira and Quinta do Noval. From 1999 a range of Port and Douro wines was produced by the van Zeller family (formerly owners of Quinta do Noval), in collaboration with the Symington Family Estates. The later bought the Quinta outright in 2009.
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Location: 41.182013, -7.552779
Notes: de la Rosa’s history dates from 1906 when it was bought, renamed and given to Claire Feuerheerd as a christening present. The Quinta was initially used to produce Feuerheerd port (now sold as Hutcheson Feuerheerd by Barros) with several SQVP being produced. In the middle of the Century, the wines were sold to Robertson’s Rebello Valente before independent production of Port restarted in 1988.
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Location: 41.157526, -7.616605
Notes: Probably founded in the 19th Century, São Luiz was bought by C.N. Kopke in 1922 who have used it as an important component of their Vintage Ports (to the extent that many vintages have been, in effect, SQVP).
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Location: 41.167792, -7.555300
Notes: First mentioned in the mid 19th Century, the Quinta was bought by Sousa Guedes towards the end of the Century, who used it in their Port until it was purchased by Ferreira in 1979. It is now contains the main winemaking facility for Ferreira, as well as contributing its own wine to the Ferreira blend. A single SQVP, a 1983, has been produced.
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Location: 41.146584, -7.260128
Notes: Purchased by George Warre in 1889 for Silva & Cosens who used it in the Dow’s blend. The Quinta was sold in 1952 by the Symington Family Estates (who, by then, owned Dow’s), and the wines sold to other shippers, but was re-bought in 1988 and is again used to Dow’s VP. SQVP has been occassionally produced in secondary years.
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Location: 41.210285, -7.460403
Notes: Previously know as Quinta do Jordão, after the family who owned it before 1934, and Quinta do Pinheiro (“of the pine trees”). Dating from the at least the 19th Century, it was owned by the Real Companhia Velha for much of the 20th, with some SQVP being produced. In the 21st Century, the wine was often sold to Graham’s who bought the property in 2012 since it adjoins Quinta dos Malvedos, their most important Quinta.
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Location: 41.145053, -7.398005
Notes: Planted in the early th Century by the Marquês de Soveral in whose family it was passed down until being purchased by Real Companhia Velha in 1972 who now use it in the their cheaper Port blends.
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Location: 41.230690, -7.528977
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Location: 41.139203, -7.394528
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Location: 41.156864, -7.640347
Notes: Purchased in 1992 by Vincent Bouchard, who had grown up in Burgundy, Tedo now independently produces a range of Ports and Douro table wines.
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Location: 41.228733, -7.544861
Notes: The current Quinta de Terra Feita has been created by Taylor’s acquiring and merging four separate Quintas (which had been a longstanding contributor to the Taylor’s blend for over a Century) between 1974 and 1990. SQVP has been produced, commercially, in secondary years since 1986.
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Location: 41.159203, -7.395528
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Location: 41.212113, -7.428110
Notes: Formerly owned, but not extensively used, by Dona Antónia Ferreira, the land currently occupied by Tua was bought by Cockburn’s in 1889 and extensively replanted. In 1973 the neighbouring Quinta da Chousa was purchased and merged with Tua and the wines provided and important part of the Cockburn’s blend until 2006 when the Quinta was sold to Graham’s. A single SQVP, a 1987, has been produced.
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Location: 41.138970, -7.355457
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Location: 41.165159, -7.511730
Notes: Dating from at least the mid 19th Century, wines from Vale de Dona Maria were formerly used in the Smith Woodhouse blend. In 1996 the property was purchased by Cristiano van Zeller, whose family had formerly owned Quinta do Noval. It now produces, independently, a range of Ports and Douro table wines.
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Location: 41.148874, -7.128110
Notes: Purchased by Dona Antónia Ferreira in 1877, Vale Meão provided wines for the Ferreira blend until Ferreira’s great-great-grandson, Vito Olazabal, bought out his relatives in 1994 and started producing a range of Ports and table wines, independently, in 1999.
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Location: 41.162361, -7.766167
Notes: Dating from 1716, Vallado has been owned by the Ferreira family since Dona Antónia Ferreira purchased it in the 19th Century. Since 1995 the Quinta has been producing, independently, a range of Douro table wines and Single Quinta 10- and 20-year old tawny Ports.
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Location: 41.142778, -7.315833
Notes: Formerly three separate Quintas which were purchased by Taylor’s from the Ferreira family between 1893 and 1896. Since 1908 Vargellas has been the primary component in the Taylor’s Vintage blend. The Ferreiras exported and sold SQVP in the 19th Century, with Taylor’s producing them in secondary years since at least 1910, and marketing them commercially since 1958. In 1970 a commemorative Vargellas was produced from vineyards about to be lost due to the damming of the Douro. Since 1995 a premium Vargellas “Vinha Velha” has been produced in certain major and secondary years from the grapes of a small plot of old vines.
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Location: 41.198063, -7.460731
Notes: Purchased by Sandeman in 1988 and extensively refurbished, Quinta do Vau is now an important part of the Sandeman blend. SQVP has been produced in major and minor years.
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Location: 41.186454, -7.513592
Notes: First mentioned in 1806, Ventozelo is a very large property on the site of a Cistercian monastery. Never tied to a single Port shipper, the Quinta was bought in 1999 by the Spanish shellfish company Proinsa, who now independently produce the full range of Ports and Douro table wine.
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Location: 41.141111, -7.261667
Notes: Bought by the Ferreira family in 1823 and developed and enlarged on a grand scale by Dona Antónia Ferreira, Vesuvio was one of the few Quintas to be known in the UK in the 19th Century. In the 20th Century, its wines were used in the Ferreira blend, until the Quinta was bought by the Symington Family Estates in 1989. Vesuvio is now sold as a premium SQVP which is unusually made in all but the worst years. In 2007 a premium “Vesuvio Capela” wine was released.
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Location: 41.179090, -7.565331
Notes: Dating from the 19th Century, Vista Allegre has been run by Vallegre, a new Portuguese shipper, since 1998 who produce the full range of Ports and Douro table wines from it.
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Location: 41.203166, -7.405472
Notes: The “juniper” Quinta, Zimbro is mentioned in the first demarcation of the Douro in 1758 and was owned by the Barros family until being the first Quinta acquired by George Warre in 1888 for Silva & Cosens (who used it in their Dow’s blend). Zimbro was sold in the 1950s to the Pinto Espanyols family (at the same time that Quinta Senhora da Ribeira was sold). The grapes continue to be sold back to be used in the Dow’s blend, although Manuel Hespanhol has produced table wines from it since 2003. In the 1870s and 1880s some SQVP was produced from the property by Feuerheerd.
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