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2004 Vintage Port

Every 2004 Port in PortDB, rated and placed on its drinking window.

Updated

2004 was a declared Port vintage, but PortDB records it thinly. It was a limited declaration — Borges & Irmão shipped a general Vintage Port, and PortDB rates that wine good, which stands as the year's rating here — but it rests on a single record, so treat it as provisional rather than a survey of the vintage. The dataset holds 5 wines from the year, 4 of them single-quinta releases. Windows open 2014–2019, with decline modelled from 2044–2063.

Rating
Good
Declaration
Limited
Houses declaring
1
Wines in PortDB
5 (4 single-quinta)
Windows open
2014–2019
Tiers
2 very good · 3 good

Every 2004 Port

When to drink the 2004s

The drinking window is derived from the house’s maturation style, stretched by the strength of the vintage and shortened for single-quinta releases. The years below are fixed for each wine; whether a bottle is ready today is shown on each entry above once JavaScript loads.

Structured · 2 wines
Dow's — windows open 2018, modelled to decline from 2063.
Opulent · 1 wine
Fonseca — windows open 2016, modelled to decline from 2054.
Balanced · 1 wine
Warre's — windows open 2014, modelled to decline from 2044.
Elegant · 1 wine
Borges & Irmão — windows open 2019, modelled to decline from 2059.

2004 in context

Vintages either side of 2004
2001 2002 2003 2005 2006 2007
Other good years
1978 1987 1995 2005

See every year rated on the Port vintage chart, the greatest years ranked in best years for Port, or compare the shippers on the Port houses.

Common questions about 2004 Port

Was 2004 a good year for Port?

2004 was declared, so the house that shipped it — Borges & Irmão — judged the year outstanding. But PortDB holds only 1 general declaration for 2004, which is too thin to rate the vintage as a whole, so the good rating here is provisional. Tier judgements reflect critic consensus and are editorial; which houses declared is public record.

Which houses declared 2004?

Borges & Irmão. A further 4 single-quinta wines were released alongside the general declarations. PortDB's dataset is not exhaustive — it holds the houses it has been able to verify against primary sources.

When should you drink 2004 Port?

Every 2004 in the dataset has its own modelled window above. Across all 5 wines, windows open 2014–2019 and decline is modelled from 2044–2063. The spread comes from house style — structured houses open around 22 years; opulent houses open around 20 years; balanced houses open around 18 years; elegant houses open around 15 years — stretched by the strength of the vintage and pulled earlier for the single-quinta wines. To check a specific bottle against today's date, use the maturity tool. These are modelled windows, not measurements: storage and bottle variation move the goalposts.

Which is the best 2004 Port?

PortDB does not rank wines within a year, but it does record a quality tier for each. The 2004s it rates very good are Dow's Quinta da Senhora da Ribeira, Dow's Quinta do Bomfim. Those tiers reflect critic consensus and are a matter of editorial judgement, not a measurement. Which is “best” for you is also a question of house style: a structured house rewards patience, an opulent one gives more, sooner.

Sources for the 2004 records