Colheita Porto is of Tawny-character, but from a single harvest, aged a minimum 7 years in 500-600L neutral French oak casks. In fact, colheita in Portuguese means harvest. Some Port houses also refer to Colheita Porto as “Single Harvest Tawny Porto” or “The Vintage of Tawny Portos” to clarify to consumers what they are drinking -- unique expressions of specific years, refined with significant cask aging.
Colheita Porto stands beautifully balanced alone, without needing to be blended with other years (as is the case with other Tawny Portos, such as our Fine, 10 Year, 20 Year and 30 Year Tawnies, which are rather unique expressions of masterful blending to attain our consistent Quinta do Tedo “house style”).
Colheita Porto simultaneously hones power and finesse with complex aromas and flavors of dried fruits, nuts, and spices. Significant time aging helps concentrate and equilibrate the Porto’s matrix of sweetness, alcohol, acidity and structure. Colheita Porto is irresistible and persistent -- each sip lingers and mesmerises, and prompts another.
After Quinta do Tedo’s first Colheita 2005 launch in 2019 and second Colheita 2006 launch in 2024, we are thrilled to launch our third Colheita 2007, now available in our Tasting Room, traditional order form and Shop Online for home delivery to customers in the EU, UK, Switzerland, Norway, and USA.
2007 was an exceptional year for Porto. The growing season was fairly cool for Douro standards, leading to a later harvest of high quality fruit with mature yet fresh (rather than raisined) character.
Quinta do Tedo Colheita 2007 is composed of a field blend from our certified organic estate’s older vineyards, vinified with foot-treading in traditional lagares. Two days of pre-fermentative maceration at cooler temperatures tease out our grapes’ more nuanced aromas and textures, followed by three days of fermentation before fortification around 7º Beaume. After sedimentation in epoxy-lined concrete tanks over winter, we transfer the “new” Porto into 550L used French oak barrels to let time work its magic aging for 19+ years before bottling. We produced a mere 1.450 bottles of Colheita 2007.
It is concentrated and composed, with focused power and persistence. Tasting it this last Sunday of May 2026, under the shade of an orange tree on our poolside terrace overlooking Tedo River, its aromas open and evolve from dates and dried apricots, to flambeed bananas and pineapple, to pecans and molasses. It finishes with an intriguing note of salted liquorice that left me salivating for more.
Pair with roasted or candied nuts (almonds, pecans, hazelnuts), ripe cantaloupe and good quality aged ham (ideally pata negra or another acorn or chestnut fed ham), foie gras with orange or fig jam, panforte, gingerbread or speculoos, a slice of Portugal’s picado de abelha almond tart, flambéed bananas or pineapple, nutty aged Comté or Gouda cheese -- the pairings are infinite and, because Tawny and Colheita Porto keeps well in the fridge for 1.5-2 months after opening (served chilled at 10°C), you can try multiple!
Our Colheita 2007 is the newest of the three Colheita Portos we have launched since our Bouchard Family ownership at Quinta do Tedo dating back to 1992.
Our Colheita 2005 is from a drier and hotter year -- it is spicy, racy and very expressive. Tasting notes from our Winemaker, Jorge Alves -- “Beautiful brown mahogany colour with brick-red tones. Seductive intensity. Rich, complex and ethereal aromas combining hazelnuts, cinnamon, toffee and molasses with hints of macerated cherries, dry herbs and orange peel. Sweet, with very good concentration, depth and surprisingly luscious texture that contrast the high sugar-high alcohol tension, schist minerality, and the linear structure. Focused precision and long length. Tedo’s first Colheita showcases a great, single harvest Tawny Porto barrel selection.”
Our Colheita 2006 is from a wetter year that replenished Douro’s water table after the 2003-2004 drought and dry and hot 2005 to follow -- it is perfumed, elegant and smooth and won a Gold Medal and 96 points in the 2025 Decanter World Wine Awards (one of Douro’s total 12 Gold medals that year!) Tasting notes from Decanter -- “Lovely open, all-embracing notes of dried fruit, fudge and caramel with a suave leather complexion and a lively focused freshness which clings to the palate.”
While each harvest (or colheita) is unique, 2007 is allegedly “the best year” and ages the longest time in barrel. However, that does not mean it will be your favourite -- you will have to taste it (and our other Colheita 2006 and 2005, if you haven’t already) for yourself.
~ Odile Bouchard