Graham's, Vintage Port, 2024
Graham's, Vintage Port, 2024
- 75cl
- 20%
- Fortified
- Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz, Tinto Cão, Tinta Barroca
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Optimal drinking window: 2030 - 2070
Est. delivery in autumn, 2026
Graham's 2024 Vintage Port represents one of the great houses at their finest, crafted from a blend of traditional Douro varieties grown across their premium quintas. This is vintage port as it should be: powerful, concentrated, and built for decades in the cellar.
The grapes come from Graham's premium quintas in the Douro Superior, where schist soils and extreme vineyard slopes create ideal conditions for concentrated fruit. The region's continental climate, with scorching summers and cold winters, naturally concentrates the grapes while maintaining essential acidity. These ancient terraced vineyards, some dating back centuries, force the vines to struggle, producing small berries with intense flavour concentration that defines great vintage port.
Vintage Port represents the pinnacle of Douro winemaking, declared only in exceptional years when conditions allow for wines of extraordinary quality and longevity. Unlike other port styles, vintage port must be bottled within two years and aged entirely in bottle, creating wines that can evolve for decades. The strict regulations ensure only the finest fruit from the best quintas makes it into these rare releases, with most houses declaring vintage port only three or four times per decade.
The 2024 Douro vintage caught everyone off guard with its sheer quality after a growing season that had producers biting their nails. Spring brought welcome rainfall after years of drought, filling the reservoirs and giving the vines a proper drink, but summer turned scorching with several brutal heat waves that had even the most experienced quintas wondering if they'd lost their fruit. What saved the day was the diurnal temperature variation – those cool nights in the schist amphitheatres allowed the grapes to retain their freshness whilst still achieving full ripeness, and many producers report some of the cleanest, healthiest fruit they've seen in years.
We're tasting wines with real backbone and precision rather than the overripe jamminess that heat can bring – the Touriga Nacional shows particular promise with its combination of power and restraint, whilst the old-vine Touriga Franca delivers some genuinely exciting aromatics. The reds have structure to burn and will reward cellaring, though the more approachable quintas are already drinking beautifully if you fancy a preview. For drinking: the lighter styles until 2030, the serious estate bottlings from 2028 onwards and likely until 2040.
What the critics say:
"The 2024 Vintage Port was produced with a blend of 55% Touriga Nacional, 30% Touriga Franca, mostly from their Malvedos vineyards (but not exclusively), a 9% field blend of old vines and 6% Sousão from Quinta do Tua, another property separated from Malvedos by the Tua River. It fermented in stainless steel lagar with foot-treading robots and matured in large oak vessels for 18 months. The wine comes from very low yields, and the nose is phenomenal, very high on Touriga Nacional, with floral notes—orange blossom—a touch of resin, a typical Graham's eucalyptus/minty thing, really morish. This is a really delicious Graham's; it's a sweeter, very generous wine that tends to be velvety with good tannins and length, more powerful and concentrated. The tannins are more assertive than the Warre's, for example, and it has the grip from the Sousão. This is certainly going to be long lived. It's relatively dry at 107 grams of sugar. 71,220 bottles produced. This was last produced in 2020."
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