Port

This is an aromatic, sweet whit port with excellent acidity and depth. Expect notes of apricot, dried fruit, nuttiness and orange. This fortified wine sits at 20% ABV, which is very well balanced. Match with hard cheeses or sip by itself. 

Niepoort have been producing world-class port since 1842. This excellent 10 year old is full of deep, nutty flavours, hints of dried apricots and a wonderful richness. It spent 10 years ageing in small oak casks before being skilfully blended by the master blender.

Niepoort family were Port shippers of Dutch origin that have been making Port in the Douro Valley since 1842. It is a relatively small Port house but with a big reputation.

Aged in oak casks for 3.5 years. Amazingly smooth, fresh nutty and rounded on the palate.

Kopke has been making port since 1638 making it the oldest port house in Portugal.

Deep dark purple in colour. On the nose it shows complexity and exuberance, with the aromas of ripe red berries combining notes of cocoa, eucalyptus leaf, pepper and liquorice, and some floral hints. In the mouth it reveals good volume and intensity. Its vibrant acidity binds well with the flavour of ripe fruit enveloped by refined tannins. A long and harmonious finish.

Taylor's is one of the top port producers and is renowned for its consistency in style and quality. It was founded in 1692 and has remained family owned and run throughout its long history and is recognised for producing benchmark styles with its vintage releases consistently among the highest ranked of all vintage ports produced.

This full bodied, richly flavoured port is made with grapes from three different vineyards; Quinta do Junco, Quinta de Terra Feita and Quinta de Vargellas.

Taylor?s Fine Ruby a blend of full bodied Port wines aged for around two years in large oak vats in Taylor?s cellars, or ?lodges?, in Vila Nova de Gaia.  

As they age, they gain smoothness and elegance while retaining their fruitiness, intensity and youthful ruby colour.  They are then blended together for balance and consistency. With its firm tannins and concentrated fruitiness, Fine Ruby is perfect for the classic port-and-cheese combination.

It is particularly good with blue-veined and richly flavoured soft cheeses.  It also pairs well with berry fruit and dark chocolate flavours and, like all red Ports, makes an excellent after dinner drink.

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Taylor?s Fine Tawny is aged for up to three years in large old oak in Vila Nova de Gaia at the mouth of the mighty Douro River; home to port. 

It is a sweet, medium ruby coloured wine with medium body and finish; a lighter style of port and bottled ready to drink. It does not require any further ageing in bottle and will not evolve in flavour further. 

Drink lightly chilled with tasty cheese and dried fruit or as an aperitif on its own.

Warre?s Otima 10 Year-Old-Tawny balances the generosity of fresh, youthful fruit with the sophistication and elegance that a decade in seasoned wood brings to the wines. The Port displays amplitude, combining fruit-driven volume with the seductive mellowness and delicacy of wood ageing. 

Rich tawny colour, with an excellent nose of nuts and hints of mature fruit. On the palate light and delicate, beautifully rounded, with hints of dried fruits, and a long elegant finish.

This sweet tawny port from Graham's is a blend of ports aged in old oak casks for an average of 10 years. This is where great tawny port starts as it is part of the reserve category of port. This classification includes 10, 20, 30 and over 40 year old designations. 

These age indications allow port producers the freedom to fine tune their wines, which are aged in seasoned oak casks of between 600 to 640 litres in size. This controlled oxidative aging process allows the wines to develop slowly into nutty flavoured, complex tawny ports as the colour fade and esters and acetals develop in the wines. 

Think of this as a great dessert wine or drink it in a more classic style as an accompaniment to an aged cheddar cheese board.