Outstanding scores for Warre's 2007 Vintage Port

Vintage Report 2009

2009 An Excellent Year For Warre's

Warre's at Vinexpo 2009 (May 2009)
It has just been announced that Warre's will be present at this year’s Vinexpo in Bordeaux, France, between June 21 and 25, with wines available for tasting in stand D233, Hall 1. The Symington family, owners of Warre's, will be present on the stand and invite you to come visit the stand to taste the recently declared 2007 Vintage Port along with their many other award-winning wines.

Warre's Declares The Outstanding 2007 Vintage Port
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New Vineyard Plantings (March 2009)
Quinta do Retiro Antigo is a magnificent estate in the Rio Torto Valley that has for many years provided the wines that make up Warre’s finest Ports, along with Warre’s Quinta da Cavadinha. In 2006 the Symington family acquired the property from their long time partners and friends, the Serodio family, and in characteristic fashion, immediately went to work enhancing this historic property. In 2009 substantial new plantings will be made, increasing the percentage of Touriga National with an additional 6 hectares of this key grape variety. The Symingtons are the leading owners of prime vineyard in the Douro and this further expansion of their vineyard area reflects and ongoing commitment to Port and the Douro.

OTIMA comes top in major blind tasting of over 40 of the leading Ten year Old tawny Ports (January 2009)
Portugal’s leading wine magazine, Revista de Vinhos, tasted all the main producers' Ten Year Old Tawnies and OTIMA was amongst the handful of wines that gained the highest points, out-performing many other well known brands.
Once again OTIMA shows that it is not just a beautiful bottle and label. OTIMA yet again proves that the wine inside is one of the very best Ten Year Old Tawnies being made by any producer. 

Vintage report 2008 (17th October 2008)
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Warre’s website redesigned and updated (October 2008)
In keeping with Warre’s constant strive for innovation, this website has undergone a complete redesign. All information has been enriched with new information and the latest images, and the overall navigation has been greatly improved. You are now be able to download wine descriptions of Warre’s wines, read about the incredibly rich heritage of Warre’s and catch up with news and recent achievements. Warre’s trend-setting Otima Tawny Port has a special section and you can find information on the relaunch of Warres Warrior. We hope you enjoy the new Warre’s website!

Warre’s Warrior new packaging (September 2008)
It is exactly 200 years since a brave young soldier aged just 24 and Oporto-born, disembarked on the coast of Portugal to help repel foreign invasion. It is fitting that a wine always closely associated with him should be re-launched this year with a striking new package. Therefore, in keeping with its tradition of innovation, Warre’s recently launched a completely redesigned Warrior in the demanding UK market. You can click here to read all about it.

New plantings at Warre’s quintas (September 2008)
This year the Symington family planted very substantial new vineyard plots at several of their estates in the Alto Douro. This was combined with an on-going series of re-plantings of very old vineyards on the various properties. The total area planted in 2008 amounted to over 31 hectares of new vineyard, including plantings undertaken at Warre’s Quinta da Telhada. The total amount of vineyard planted this year is the equivalent of a major new Quinta in the Douro and shows the family’s on-going commitment to the finest Ports and wines of the Douro.

More than 30% of the new plantings were made up of the low-yielding but very high quality Touriga Nacional variety. All the plantings benefited from the experience gained from the 3.1 hectares of experimental vineyard at Warre’s Quinta da Cavadinha that was first planted in 1997 in the specific areas of root stock selection, soil analysis and the use of different varieties on different soils. This on-going experiment has already yielded important information that has directly helped to improve varietal selection and ultimately the quality of the grapes.