Feuerheerd's Vintage Port

Feuerheerd's is a balanced Port house — elegance with grip, the middle path between power and perfume. PortDB records 19 Feuerheerd's releases spanning 1922–2011, 1 of them single-quinta wine. Across the set, 6 classic. Their windows open 1932–2029, with decline modelled from 1962–2081.

Style: Balanced
Wines in PortDB: 19 (1 single-quinta)
Range: 1922–2011
Tiers: 6 classic · 6 very good · 7 good
Named quintas: Quinta de Zimbro
Windows open: 1932–2029

Every Feuerheerd's vintage

Feuerheerd's vintages recorded by PortDB, with type, quality tier, prime drinking window and a sourced note.
Year	Wine	Rating	Prime window	Note
2011	Vintage Port	Very good	2029–2058	Celebrated universal year; among the house's better modern releases Vintageport.se list; corroborated by trade commentary naming 2011 as noteworthy for Feuerheerd
2007	Vintage Port	Good	2025–2049	Declared but light, modern, short finish (~14.5/20) Vintageport.se Feuerheerd house declaration list
2003	Vintage Port	Classic	2021–2057	Broad declaration; quite complex, near-peaking (~15.7/20) Vintageport.se Feuerheerd house declaration list
2000	Vintage Port	Very good	2018–2047	Strong declared year; mature, soft elegant tannin (~15.65/20) Vintageport.se Feuerheerd house declaration list
1997	Vintage Port	Classic	2015–2051	Major declaration; soft elegant tannins, ~87pts/~15.75 (Barros era) Vintageport.se Feuerheerd house declaration list
1985	Vintage Port	Classic	2003–2039	Widely lauded universal year; mature, seductive finish (~15.4/20) Vintageport.se list; corroborated by Wine-Searcher, MWH Wines and CellarTracker
1983	Vintage Port	Very good	2001–2030	Good declared year; 'balanced and elegant', long attractive finish (~16.5/20) Vintageport.se Feuerheerd house declaration list
1982	Vintage Port	Good	2000–2024	Edge/secondary declaration; mature, balanced, easy-drinking (~15.3/20) Vintageport.se list; corroborated by MWH Wines and Wine-Searcher 1982 page
1977	Vintage Port	Classic	1995–2031	Great universal declaration; serious age-worthy year for the house Vintageport.se Feuerheerd house declaration list
1970	Vintage Port	Classic	1988–2024	Celebrated universal year; complex, sweet, attractive finish Vintageport.se declaration list; corroborated by Wine-Searcher market price
1963	Vintage Port	Classic	1981–2017	Major universal declaration; clean fruit, fresh balanced finish Vintageport.se declaration list; corroborated by Wine-Searcher and merchant tasting notes
1960	Vintage Port	Good	1978–2002	Widely declared lighter vintage; mature, 'elegant and good' (~16.4/20) Vintageport.se Feuerheerd house declaration list
1958	Vintage Port	Good	1976–2000	Lighter 1958 declaration; historic Feuerheerd’s bottling. vintageport.se — Feuerheerd house vintage-declaration table
1957	Vintage Port	Good	1975–1999	Lesser year declaration; ~17/20, balanced and complex; still traded Vintageport.se Feuerheerd house declaration list
1955	Vintage Port	Very good	1973–2002	Classic year; ~17.5/20, long, complex, elegant finish Vintageport.se Feuerheerd house declaration list
1947	Vintage Port	Very good	1965–1994	Mid-weight; ~17.5/20, 'very long and very elegant', peaking Vintageport.se Feuerheerd house declaration list
1945	Vintage Port	Very good	1963–1992	Great classic year; scored ~17.5/20, 'balanced and elegant', matured Vintageport.se Feuerheerd house declaration list
1942	Vintage Port	Good	1960–1984	Wartime declaration; rare surviving bottling, traded at high prices today Vintageport.se Feuerheerd house declaration list; corroborated by Vintage Wine & Port 1942 product listing
1922	Single quintaQuinta de Zimbro	Good	1932–1956	Historic single-quinta bottling from the property before Warre/Dow ownership era Vintageport.se Feuerheerd single-quinta (Quinta de Zimbro) vintage list; corroborated by quinta-history sources noting Zimbro SQVP in the 1920s

How Feuerheerd's ages

The middle path — elegance with grip. These open around 18 years and drink through a prime to roughly 42. The years below are this house’s own bottlings, grouped by the tier of the vintage — a greater year is more concentrated and stretches the window. They are fixed for each wine; whether a bottle is ready today depends on the date and is answered by the maturity tool.

Classic · 6 wines: 1963, 1970, 1977, 1985, 1997, 2003 — windows open 1981–2021, modelled to decline from 2040–2080.
Very good · 6 wines: 1945, 1947, 1955, 1983, 2000, 2011 — windows open 1963–2029, modelled to decline from 2015–2081.
Good · 7 wines: 1922, 1942, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1982, 2007 — windows open 1932–2025, modelled to decline from 1962–2072.

Houses that age like Feuerheerd's

PortDB groups the 21 houses into four maturation styles. These share Feuerheerd's’s, so their wines come round on a similar schedule.

Warre's: 37 wines, 1963–2017 — legendary in 1963, 2011.
Cockburn's: 10 wines, 1908–2016 — legendary in 1908, 1963.
Sandeman: 5 wines, 1955–2011.
Martinez: 17 wines, 1955–2007.

Compare all 21 on the Port houses, see every year rated on the Port vintage chart, or read the greatest years ranked in best years for Port.

Common questions about Feuerheerd's Port

Is Feuerheerd's a good Port house?

By PortDB's tiers, yes. Feuerheerd's has 6 classic vintages among the 19 PortDB records, across 1922–2011. Those tiers reflect critic consensus and are a matter of editorial judgement, not a measurement; which years the house declared is public record. The dataset is also not exhaustive — it holds what has been verified against primary sources, so a missing year means no verified record here, not no wine.

Which Feuerheerd's vintage should you buy?

PortDB does not rank wines, but it does record a tier for each. The Feuerheerd's vintages it rates classic are 1963, 1970, 1977, 1985, 1997, 2003. Each year's page lists every house that declared it, so you can see what Feuerheerd's was up against. They span 1963–2003, so their windows sit decades apart — “best” and “ready” are different questions, and the window on each row above answers the second one.

How long does Feuerheerd's Vintage Port last?

Feuerheerd's's wines are modelled on the balanced maturation style, which opens around 18 years after the vintage and holds a prime to about 42, stretched by the strength of the vintage and pulled earlier for its single-quinta wines. Across the 19 wines listed above that works out at windows opening 1932–2029 and decline modelled from 1962–2081. To place a specific bottle against today's date, name the house and year in the maturity tool. These are modelled windows, not measurements: storage and bottle variation move the goalposts.