Good luck finding information about this company on the internet.

Not even the current owner of this brand, SOGEVINUS, lists this company on their web-page.

It all started in 1881, when Thomas Page Hutcheson and Alexander Davidson Taylor founded their company Hutcheson & Ca. Ltda. Alexander was somehow related to the Taylor’s family that was well established in the world of Port Wine – but this didn’t help his company very much. They focused on mediocre Tawnies and Rubies and weren’t really successful.

Thomas Hutcheson retired from the company in 1920, when their business was really hurting. He was replaced by Augustus G. Bouttwood, who became sole partner in 1925, when Taylor died.

However, the company wasn’t succesful and two years later, in 1927, he sold the business to the Barros Family.

No specific Quinta in the Douro Valley was associated with this brand.

Over the next decades, it continued to focus on light tawnies and rubies, with the odd vintage declaration in between. James Suckling wrote about them in his book Vintage Port”: “There is not much to say about Hutcheson. It declares few vintages and what is bottled as vintage Port is not very interesting.”

But Hutcheson launched quite a bit of colheitas over the years – and while most of them are not great, it’s always interesting to try an old wine from a specific year.

In 1996 Barros merged Hutcheson together with another low-profile brand, Feuerheerd, and created the new company “Hutcheson, Feuerheerd & Associados-Vinhos SA”.

In 2006 this company was sold with most other assets of the Barros Group to SOGEVINUS.

SOGEVINUS has interesting brands like Kopke, Burmester, Calem and Barros – they don’t even mention Hutcheson Feuerheerd anymore on their web-page.

As far as I know, the last Colheita that was launched from Hutcheson was the 2009 and the last Vintage Port was 2000.

While this isn’t an important brand, I like to see traditional names on Port Wine bottles – and I hope that at some point in time this brand will be revived and we see new bottlings for Hutcheson.