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[[File:Taylor’s Port.jpg|thumb|A 10-year-old [[Tawny port]] from Taylor’s.]]
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[[File:Taylor’s Port.jpg|thumb|A 10-year-old [[Tawny port]] from Taylor’s.]]
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”’Taylor, Fladgate & Yeatman”’ (often simply ”’Taylor Fladgate”’ and trading under the name ”’Taylor’s”’) is one of the largest [[port wine]] houses.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.intowine.com/port2.html|title=Port Wine Producer Profiles – Into Wine|date=13 March 2007 |
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”’Taylor, Fladgate & Yeatman”’ (often simply ”’Taylor Fladgate”’ and trading under the name ”’Taylor’s”’) is one of the largest [[port wine]] houses.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.intowine.com/port2.html|title=Port Wine Producer Profiles – Into Wine|date=13 March 2007 |=2 August 2016}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.atlasofwineries.com/wineries/taylorfladgate.html|title=AN ATLAS OF WINERIES|=2 August 2016}}</ref>
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The Taylor Fonseca Group owns the brands of Taylor, Fonseca, [[Fonseca-Guimaraens]], Krohn, Delaforce and Croft.<ref>{{cite web |
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The Taylor Fonseca Group owns the brands of Taylor, Fonseca, [[Fonseca-Guimaraens]], Krohn, Delaforce and Croft.<ref>{{cite web |=Suckling |=James |title=Taylor Fonseca Group Buys Croft and Delaforce Port Houses |url=https://www.winespectator.com/articles/taylor-fonseca-group-buys-croft-and-delaforce-port-houses-21004 |website=Wine Spectator |access-date=7 January 2026 |date=4 September 2001}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.croftport.com/history.htm |title=Croft Port |=2013-01-29 |url-status=dead |=https://web.archive.org/web/20130127105219/http://www.croftport.com/history.htm |=2013-01-27 }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.taylor.pt/|title=Taylor’s Port Wine – The Home of Port|first=Taylor’s|last=Port|=2 August 2016}}</ref>
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In August 2023, it was announced Taylor Fladgate had acquired the assets, stock and Minho, Dão and Bairrada estates of the [[Portugal|Portuguese]] wine company, Ideal Drinks.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Schmitt |first=Patrick |date=2023-08-18 |title=Taylor’s Port buys multi-regional Portuguese wine producer |url=https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2023/08/taylors-port-buys-multi-regional-portuguese-wine-producer/ |access-date=2023-08-18 |website=The Drinks Business |language=en-GB}}</ref>
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In August 2023, it was announced Taylor Fladgate had acquired the assets, stock and Minho, Dão and Bairrada estates of the [[Portugal|Portuguese]] wine company, Ideal Drinks.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Schmitt |first=Patrick |date=2023-08-18 |title=Taylor’s Port buys multi-regional Portuguese wine producer |url=https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2023/08/taylors-port-buys-multi-regional-portuguese-wine-producer/ |access-date=2023-08-18 |website=The Drinks Business |language=en-GB}}</ref>
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