LBV Port... Victor Marques Port wine is only from Douro Valley...

LBV - Late Bottled Vintage is a kind of wine that had been destined for being bottled as Vintage Port, but the due to the lack of great demand for Port was left in the barrel for rather longer that it was at first stage planned. Over time it has become two distinct styles of wine , both of them bottled between four and six years after vintage, but one style is fined and filtered prior to bottling while the other is not.
So you have filtered wine ready to drink without decanting and unfiltered wines are bottled with conventional corks and need to be decanted. The cork is so important for a great wine...
LBV Ports are the product of a single year’s harvest and tend to be lighter bodied than a vintage Port.

I can recommend to you a fantastic Quinta Seara Dordens 2003 Late Bottled Vintage Porto Bottled last year in 2008. I tried it and I can advise that is very rare to find such a great LBV. It has a unique personality and aged for 20 months and then in old wood casks until bottling at the 4th year. It is intense in color, with a bouquet of ripe grapes and forest berries. It is very elegant, fruity and full -bodied on the palate.

Enjoy life, enjoy great wine and love yourself...



Kindest regards from Douro and Tua Valley!

Victor Marques