Now the 2011 vintage has been universally lauded and enthusiastically declared by all of the major Port houses and shippers, it is perhaps time for reviewing the situation with such wines, or at least attempting to provide a suitable overview of things as they stand.

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It is a promising sign that even at this early stage, ‘the first growths of the Douro Valley’ have found an able champion in the form of Jancis Robinson MW, whose overall assessment and individual scores will set an authoritative baseline as the corpus of professional criticism surrounding 2011 Vintage Port continues to develop.