Ep. 45 David Guimaraens, Technical Director and Head Wine Maker, The Fladgate Partnership

Wine Podcast: The Honest Pour with John Lenart

I love port wine. But it can be a complicated subject. Broken down into two distinct groups, tawny and ruby, each style offers different characteristics. Vintage Port is the grandest expression of all ports. Selected for extraordinary qualities and capacity for aging in the bottle, only about three times per decade are ports declared to have the special qualities of a true "vintage." When a port is declared as a vintage you can be certain it will be an exceptional wine. 2016 was just such a vintage. David Guimaraens, Technical Director and Head Wine Maker, The Fladgate Partnership was in Chicago with a group of other port wine makers to introduce the wines of this magical vintage. We met to talk about the 2016's and of course to taste through his Croft, Fonseca, and Taylor's vintage ports.