Grahams First Flight Colheita Port 2003

This Port was made in 2003, an excellent harvest in the Douro Valley and the year that marked aviation’s centennial, 1903-2003. Peter and Charles Symington, Graham’s father and son winemaking team, chose the finest wines of the vintage, part of which they selected for bottling as Vintage Port, whilst a further selection of the finest lots were earmarked for long-term ageing in seasoned oak casks for future release as Colheita Port; wines from a single harvest (‘colheita’ means harvest in Portuguese). When Peter retired in 2009, Charles succeeded him as head winemaker and taster and having closely followed the wines’ development he decided to further mature the 2003 wines in wood prior to bottling. The Graham’s 2003 Colheita release has been named ‘First Flight’ in celebration of the first century of aviation.