Vintage Port 1926
| Vintage | Rating | Broad- bent | Suckling | Declared houses | Known brands | Comment |
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| 1926 | Fair | 1 | 70 | - | 8 | Taylor produced and sold Quinta de Vargellas to a Wine Merchant due to his son's birth |
| 1926: | Forrester Kopke Quarles Harris Quinta das Lages Quinta do Noval Ramos Pinto Stausholm Taylor's Special Quinta Vintage (probably Vargellas) |
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| House | Forrester | Vintage | 1926 |
| Colour | Almost as a tawny in colour. | Number of tastings | 1 |
| Bouquet | Pharmacy, old hospital and burned sugar in the nose. | Score range | 16.75 - 16.75 |
| Taste | Medium body. Mature but with high acidity as in colheita but balanced anyhow. Quite elegant. Burned sugar and butterscotch in taste. Very dry but easy to drink and enjoy. Maybe a little short finish | Average score | |
| Last tasted | 23rd December 2016 | Point this date | 16.75 |
| Comment | At home with the family. The name was Forrester Vintage 1926 No. 26 and it taste as it was a Colheita and we believe that this was a Colheita and not a vintage despite the name vintage | Tasters | SAI, JB, SS |
| House | Stausholm | Vintage | 1926 |
| Colour | Yellow mature in colour. | Number of tastings | 1 |
| Bouquet | Quite attractive bouquet of pharmacy, ginger, cinnamon, toffee and fudge in the nose. | Score range | 16.75 - 16.75 |
| Taste | Medium body. Mature, peaking and maybe a little old but lovely in taste with lots of ginger and cinnamon. Complex and balanced port with a long and harmonious finish. Astonishing port for this vintage. | Average score | |
| Last tasted | 16th August 2013 | Point this date | 16.75 |
| Comment | At home with the family and a wine friend. | Tasters | SAI, JB, SS |