Quarles Harris

Specification

Producer

Quarles Harris

Region

Rest of world

Where

Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal

Classification

Vintage Port

Grapes

Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca and other Douro varieties

Vintage

1994

Case

75cl

Held at

Wine Tunnels, London City Bond (in bond)

Code

QUAHAR941X75

About this wine

Quarles Harris Vintage Port is made in declared years from traditional Douro grape varieties, blended and bottled young to mature in bottle. It is rich and full-bodied, with dark fruit, spice and firm tannins in youth, gaining complexity with time. Like other vintage Ports it needs many years to come round and keeps for decades.

About Quarles Harris

Quarles Harris is one of the oldest Port houses, with origins in the late seventeenth century, making it among the earliest British firms in the trade. It is now part of the Symington family's group of Port houses, alongside Graham's, Dow's and Warre's.

The house is smaller and less widely known than its sister companies, and its vintage Ports are made in limited quantities from grapes grown in the Douro valley. They offer traditional, long-lived vintage Port from one of the trade's historic names.