Kopke Colheita Port | Portugal

Colheita, meaning harvest or crop, is a port from a single year but differ from a vintage one.

They are essentially another style of Tawny, aged for a minimum 7 years in cask (often more). They are released when ready to drink; unlike Vintage Ports they will not improve in bottle and need not be drunk up within days of opening.

Colheitas offer excellent value being less expensive than similarly aged Vintage Ports and are more of a rarity – even less Colheita is bottled than Vintage Port, typically only 1% of all Port produced in any given year.

The House of Kopke was formed in 1638 and is the oldest established Porto wine export firm.

Through many generations, the company was run by several representatives of the Kopke family, obtaining an excellent reputation for its wines. Kopke passed to the Bohane family at the end of the 19th century, who tried to run it from London, where they had most of their economic interests. But the geographical distance and the two World Wars disabled their control of the House and they decided to sell.

In 1953 Manuel Barros bought Kopke where it became part of the Barros Group which includes other port houses such as Hutcheson and Feuerheerd. Manuel Barros and his sons, João and Manuel, ran the company until the middle of the 1970s. In 2006 the Sogevinus Group, looking to widen its presence in Port wines, took control of Barros’ interests and in 2025 rebranded itself as the Kopke Group.