Dow Port Winery Guide

Wines produced

• Dow's Vintage Port

  On average only three times in a decade is the weather suitable for the declaration of a Vintage year and only a small handful of vineyards in the Alto Douro produce wines of the potential to become Vintage Port. The wine is aged for two to two and a half years in wood before being bottled, unfiltered.
• Dow's Quinta do Bomfin Vintage Port

  Dow's finest vineyard, acquired and planted by the firm in 1980, situated in the most favorable location in the Upper Douro and with classified 'A' grade vineyards. In 'non-declared' years, the quinta produces wines of consistently high quality, which are selected and bottled as Dow's Quinta do Bomfim.
• Dow's Quinta Sra. da Ribeira Vintage Port

  • 18 months in barrel
  This famed estate was bought back by the Symington family in 1998, Dow's Bicentenary year. The wine is aged for a minimum 18 months in the Quinta's oak vats, before bottling in the spring of its second year.
• Dow's Late Bottled Vintage

  These wines come from the same vineyards that, in a year when a Vintage is "declared", produce Vintage Port. However, as they are bottled between the fourth and sixth year after the harvest, they mature more quickly and are ready to drink much sooner.
• Dow's Crusted Port

  Dow's Crusted Port is a blend of high quality wines from recent vintages that have been matured in cask for two to three years before bottling without any filtration. The wine is then aged for a further three years in bottle prior to being offered for sale.
• Dow's Trademark

  This Port originates from Dow's own Quinta do Bomfim estate and a handful of neighbouring vineyards. Fruity, luscious and mellow with an attractive undertone of spice. Trademark has the slightly drier finish than others in the range.
• Old Tawny Ports (10 - over 40 years old)

  Peter and Charles Symington select young wines of great style and body for setting aside and maturing in oak, over many years. During the ageing, the Ports gradually lose the full, deep red color of their youth and take on the classic amber hue, which gives them their name.
• Other Wines Include

  Rubies, Tawnies and White Ports