1961 Taylor’s Very Old Single Harvest Port

BY NEAL MARTIN | JANUARY 11, 2021

Nineteen sixty-one is inextricably linked with Bordeaux, not Vintage Port, whose annus mirabilis came in 1963. Both 1963 and the less heralded 1960 saw General Declarations that leave the intervening years open to interpretation as blank spaces, suggesting that 1961 and 1962 were poor growing seasons. In truth, they simply did not quite come up to scratch, notwithstanding that Port Houses have long been averse to successive declarations.

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After half-a-century, Taylor’s have just released a 1961 Very Old Single Harvest Port. The 1961 growing season was no write off.