Taylor, Fladgate & Yeatman (often simply Taylor Fladgate and trading under the name Taylor's) is one of the largest port wine houses.[1] Founded in 1692 in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal by Job Bearsley, becoming Taylor, Fladgate & Yeatman when Joseph Taylor, John Alexander Fladgate and Morgan Yeatman formed a partnership in 1838, it is also one of the oldest.[2]
The Taylor Fonseca Group owns the brands of Taylor, Fonseca, Fonseca-Guimaraens, Krohn, Delaforce and Croft.[3][4] The house ships almost all types of port including vintage, tawny, ruby, late-bottled vintage, and white. The house invented the style of late-bottled vintage port.[5]
In August 2023, it was announced Taylor Fladgate had acquired the assets, stock and Minho, Dão and Bairrada estates of the Portuguese wine company, Ideal Drinks.[6]
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- Port Wine Producer Profiles - Into Wine 13 March 2007, retrieved 2 August 2016^
- AN ATLAS OF WINERIES retrieved 2 August 2016^
- James Suckling. Taylor Fonseca Group Buys Croft and Delaforce Port Houses Wine Spectator, 4 September 2001, retrieved 7 January 2026^
- Croft Port retrieved 2013-01-29^
- Taylor's Port. Taylor's Port Wine - The Home of Port retrieved 2 August 2016^
- Patrick Schmitt. Taylor’s Port buys multi-regional Portuguese wine producer The Drinks Business, 2023-08-18, retrieved 2023-08-18^