This book provides a concise history of the house of Croft plus a record of The Great Croft Tasting (20 vintages from 1900 to 2003) that was attended by Richard Mayson, Roy Hersh and many other Port wine critics.
A nicely presented booklet, which doubles as a promotional item.
Publisher: The Fladgate Partnership, Oporto
Edition: 2008
Pages: 93
ISBN: 9789892010755
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A lightweight introduction to port that appears to have been written with the complete novice in mind.
The book consists of a brief history and description of Port and a one-page summary of a significant number of prominent shippers. Roughly half of the book consists of near life-size pictures of Port bottles.
Publisher: Booksales
Edition: 2003
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This small notebook contains 40 pages of Serena Suttcliffe’s tasting notes covering vintages from 1854 to 1998.
Quite rare to find.
Publisher: Sotheby’s, London
Edition: 2002
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Commissioned by Silva & Cosens Ltd to mark the Bicentenary of Dow’s Port. An interesting and informative history of the company and an extensive set of Vintage Reports dating back to 1891.
A very nice book to own.
Publisher: Seagrave Foulkes, Kingston Upon Thameson
Edition: 1998
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The dust jacket note from George Sandeman says “This book takes a fresh look at Port and the many different ways that its styles and tastes can be enjoyed; in combinations that are as rich as your imagination.”
One for the food lovers.
Publisher: LB Publishing Ltd., London
Edition: 1996
ISBN: 9781900942003
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A detailed history of trade between Portugal and England, including an interesting chapter on the development of the Port trade.
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited, Aldershot
Edition: 1998
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I have not yet read this book but it looks to be a useful reference in that it has a directory of Port shippers which includes a brief history of each along with notes of the quintas owned and vintages declared since 1945.
Publisher: Mitchell Bleazley
Edition: 1993
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Published to mark the 300th Anniversary of the foundation of Taylor, Fladgate & Yeatman in 1992. This is really a promotional item but has lots of interesting tasting notes from a number of critics from the tricentennial tasting.
Publisher: Mitchell Beazley, London, for Taylor, Fladgate & Yeatman
Edition: 1992
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The rights to this book rest with Edicao do Instituto do Vinho do Porto who published it in 1981, 8 years after the work was finished. The delay in publishing was due to the demise of the original sponsors, the Gremio dos Exportadores de Vinho do Porto. The preface says that no funds were available to publish the book until 1981. I have not yet read this book but it seems to provide lots of information and statistics relating to how the quality of vineyards and wines are assessed. There is also a section listing and describing the various Port-related Acts which came into affect between 1755 and 1967. A very useful reference.
Publisher: Instituto do Vinho do Porto
Edition: 1981
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This is an interesting account of the history of the company but is more of a promotional item than a book about Port.
An extract from the Acknowledgements reads: “This book has been commissioned by the Directors of Croft & Co. Ltd. to celebrate the Tercentenary of the company in 1978″. However, The Fladgate Partnership claim to have evidence that the company dates back an additional ninety years to 1588.
Publisher: Collins, London
Edition: 1978
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