Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, the shape of the wine bottle underwent continuous transformation. Over time, it evolved from the squat, rounded vessels originally used to carry wine from the merchant’s cask to the consumer’s table, into the tall cylindrical form familiar today—designed for cellaring and ageing. Taylor’s Historical Limited Edition series highlights key stages in this progression.
The first release in the collection, introduced in 2017 to mark Taylor’s 325th anniversary, was inspired by the bulbous “onion” bottle style common around the company’s founding in 1692. The next edition drew on the design of the “flat chestnut” flagons produced in England between roughly 1715 and 1740.
For each Historical Edition bottle, Taylor’s expert blenders craft a wood-aged Reserve Port selected from the house’s extensive stocks and matured in oak casks in the company’s Oporto lodges. Fully matured, these exceptional limited-edition blends are ready to be enjoyed immediately.
