Quinta do Vesuvio Vintage Port

Quinta do Vesuvio is a structured Port house — firm and tannic, the slowest of the four builds to open and the longest-lived. PortDB records 5 Quinta do Vesuvio releases spanning 1994–2017, all of them single-quinta wines. Across the set, 1 vintage is rated legendary (2011) and 3 classic. Their windows open 2008–2031, with decline modelled from 2056–2080.

Style: Structured
Wines in PortDB: 5 (5 single-quinta)
Range: 1994–2017
Tiers: 1 legendary · 3 classic · 1 very good
Named quintas: —
Windows open: 2008–2031

Every Quinta do Vesuvio vintage

Quinta do Vesuvio vintages recorded by PortDB, with type, quality tier, prime drinking window and a sourced note.
Year	Wine	Rating	Prime window	Note
2017	Single quinta	Classic	2031–2070	Concentrated hot-year Vesuvio with firm tannins. Quinta do Vesúvio official site (release listed) + Symington 2017 classic declaration + critic scores (WS 96, WA 97-99, WE 96, JS 95)
2011	Single quinta	Legendary	2025–2071	Outstanding 2011 from this remote Douro Superior estate. Wine Spectator Top 100 'Vintage Port for the Ages' — 2011 hailed as benchmark/best-in-50-years; Vesúvio 2011 scored 97-98 pts
2007	Single quinta	Very good	2021–2057	Elegant yet powerful single-quinta vintage. Quinta do Vesúvio official vintage list (2007 release confirmed)
2003	Single quinta	Classic	2017–2056	Dense, structured Symington-era release with excellent grip. Quinta do Vesúvio official list + World of Fine Wine bicentenary (2003 scored 95, 'exceptional')
1994	Single quinta	Classic	2008–2047	Massive, foot-trodden single-quinta wine that ages like a top Vintage Port. Quinta do Vesúvio official list + critic scores (Mayson 95, Neal Martin 93, Parker 92, Jancis 17.5) — 'greatest Vesúvio of the century'

How Quinta do Vesuvio ages

The longest-lived style — firm, tannic and slow to reveal itself. Wines of this build need roughly 22 years to open and can hold well past 55. 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.

Legendary · 1 wine: 2011 — windows open 2025, modelled to decline from 2080.
Classic · 3 wines: 1994, 2003, 2017 — windows open 2008–2031, modelled to decline from 2056–2079.
Very good · 1 wine: 2007 — windows open 2021, modelled to decline from 2066.

Houses that age like Quinta do Vesuvio

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

Taylor's: 33 wines, 1960–2024 — legendary in 1963, 1977, 1994, 2011.
Dow's: 38 wines, 1963–2019 — legendary in 1963, 1966, 1970, 1977, 1994, 2007, 2011.
Quinta do Noval: 7 wines, 1931–2017 — legendary in 1931, 1963, 1994, 2011.
Niepoort: 4 wines, 1945–2011 — legendary in 1945.
Churchill's: 4 wines, 1985–2011.
Smith Woodhouse: 4 wines, 1977–2007.

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 Quinta do Vesuvio Port

Is Quinta do Vesuvio a good Port house?

By PortDB's tiers, yes. Quinta do Vesuvio has 1 legendary vintage and 3 classic vintages among the 5 PortDB records, across 1994–2017. 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 Quinta do Vesuvio vintage should you buy?

PortDB does not rank wines, but it does record a tier for each. The Quinta do Vesuvio vintage it rates legendary is 2011. Each year's page lists every house that declared it, so you can see what Quinta do Vesuvio was up against. They span 2011, 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 Quinta do Vesuvio Vintage Port last?

Quinta do Vesuvio's wines are modelled on the structured maturation style, which opens around 22 years after the vintage and holds a prime to about 55, stretched by the strength of the vintage and pulled earlier for its single-quinta wines. Across the 5 wines listed above that works out at windows opening 2008–2031 and decline modelled from 2056–2080. 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.