Boa Vista Vintage

Specification

Producer

Offley

Region

Rest of world

Where

Douro Valley, Portugal

Classification

Vintage Port

Vintage

1977

Case

12 x 75cl OWC

Held at

Wine Tunnels, London City Bond (in bond)

Code

OFFLEY7712X75

About this wine

Offley Boa Vista is the house’s vintage Port, named after Quinta da Boa Vista in the Douro Valley. Made from traditional Douro grape varieties and bottled young after around two years in wood, it matures slowly in bottle, its youthful black fruit turning to dried fruit, spice and a smoother, mellower texture over several decades.

About Offley

Offley is a Port house with roots in the eighteenth century, when the Offley family began shipping wine from Oporto to England. In the nineteenth century it became associated with Joseph James Forrester, later Baron Forrester, who mapped the Douro and is one of the most famous figures in Port history.

The house is closely linked with Quinta da Boa Vista, its property in the Douro, whose name appeared on its vintage Ports. Offley is now part of Sogrape, Portugal’s largest wine group. Older Offley vintage Ports are traditional in style and, like other well-made vintage Ports, can age for many decades.