Characterized by a full body as well as a distinctive berry collar. Generous flavors are reminiscent of cherries bathed in luscious chocolate. It can serve as a delightful alternative to brandy. Expertly fashioned to follow the European traditions of Port, it is aged for maximum flavor.
Producer Background: Founded in 1981 by John Graham and his wife Caroline Churchill, Churchill’s port is an independent, family-owned Port Wine House -- the first independent port wine house established in more than fifty years. Churchill’s is the only port wine producer who begins with wines produced only from grapes grown...
Cockburn’s Fine Ruby is a blend of young wines from various years, aged for three years in wood casks and bottled after filtration. With rich, full-bodied flavors of raspberry, plum and spice, it retains the red color and fruit flavor of youth, and is ready to drink when bottled, offering a...
Cockburns Special Reserve Port
10 Years Old Tawny is a light, medium tawny-colored wine. The aroma is clean, showing a good balance of sweetness and acidity mingled with a soft nuttiness permeating through the rich complexity of wood-aged wine. It is round and delicate on the palate, yet crisp and lively with a soft, mellow...
Fine Tawny is aged for about the same amount of time as Cockburn’s Fine Ruby (about three years), but in smaller barrels to hasten aging to a reddish amber (tawny) color and to develop a smoother, nutty flavor. Many of these wines are also left upriver in the Douro Valley to...
Cockburns Tawny Port 20 year Old
20 Years Old Tawny port is a golden-colored tawny, denoting a wine of considerable age. Very nutty and aromatic on the nose, it is a wine that has reached a high degree of smoothness through many years in wood. While very mellow and concentrated on the palate, it shows plenty of...
Croft distinction port is a rich premium reserve of superior age and quality. It has been placed at the top end of the Reserve sector. These are ports that have been blended using wines of greater age and quality than the standard range to produce wines of more complexity. Distinction has...
Vintage Ports are only made and declared in exceptional years. After bottling, 2 years after the harvest, the Port wine matures slowly for many years to gain the complexity that port wine is famous for. Elegant and refined in the Croft style, the house's vintage ports are characterized by cool, integrated...
Croft Quinta de Roeda Port 1997
From years which had a good microclimate at Quinta de Roeda, but not necessarily for the whole Douro region, Croft produces a single Quinta Port wine. Quinta de Roeda is a vineyard with an austere heritage and produces the backbone of Croft Vintage port. Single Quinta Vintages are usually earlier maturing...
A blend of young wines, matured in cask for an average of three years before bottling. Croft Fine Ruby is a crisp, full bodied and fruity Port rich in style and with a full deep red, intense appearance. Lively plum and red berry impressions dominate this fresh young port, which is...
Made in a sweet, open-knit, precocious style, Delaforce's 2000 reveals a dense ruby/purple color as well as sweet, accessible black cherry/blackberry fruit with hints of smoke, earth, and truffles. This lush, medium to full-bodied, juicy, succulent effort will last for 15+ years.” Rated 90, Robert Parker Very floral, with hints of...
Dow’s is owned and managed by the fourth generation of the Symington family. Port producers since the 19th Century. The family, whose experience dates back over 100 years, supervises all the vineyards, winemaking and ageing of this wine. Dow’s owns two of the Douro’s finest Quintas, Senhora da Ribeira and Bomfim....
Light amber and tawny colour, showing mature raisiny fruit aromas with hints of honey and caramel. Dow’s Twenty Years Old Tawny has a rich and nutty palate, with wonderful balance. A clean crisp finish and a soft lingering aftertaste make this an unforgettable Port on any occasion.
Vintage Port is the outstanding wine of an outstanding year. Perhaps on average only three times in a decade is the weather suitable for the declaration of a Vintage year and only a small handful of vineyards in the Alto Douro produce wines of the potential to become Vintage Port. The...
Deep and lively Ruby colour. The wine is full-bodied and has very appealing red fruit driven aromas. On the palate, fresh and youthful with raspberry and cherry flavours, combined with a long and intense finish.
Appealing tawny colour. Dow’s Fine Tawny manages to combine velvety smooth nutty and caramel aromas with delicious ripe fruit such as apricots, with hints of raisins. On the palate fresh, well balanced and with a long and slightly dry finish.
Dow’s is owned and managed by the fourth generation of the Symington family. Port producers since the 19th Century. The family, whose experience dates back over 100 years, supervises all the vineyards, winemaking and ageing of this wine. Dow’s owns two of the Douro’s finest Quintas, Senhora da Ribeira and Bomfim....
Dow’s is owned and managed by the fourth generation of the Symington family. Port producers since the 19th Century. The family, whose experience dates back over 100 years, supervises all the vineyards, winemaking and ageing of this wine. Dow’s owns two of the Douro’s finest Quintas, Senhora da Ribeira and Bomfim....
Wine of the Year, Ficklin Vineyards Tinta Port... the one California wine that has pleased my palate consistently for the 30-some years I've been a serious wine fancier. Spicy, dark, ripe plum fruit flavor, with the beginning of complexity perfectly balanced fruit, to sweetness, to alcohol... I really don't think you can buy a more satisfying bottle of Port anywhere for less money. - Jerry Mead, Mead on Wine
Vintage character is descriptive of a type of port blended from high quality reserve wines from a range of vintages, which, similar to late bottled vintage port, shows some of the characteristics of true vintage port. Most vintage character ports, which have only become widely commercialized since the 1950s, carry a brand...
Fonseca Tawny Port 10 Year Old
During the January following each vintage, Fonseca sets aside a reserve of very concentrated, powerful vintage quality red ports, selected primarily from the firm's own quintas and judged according to their ageing potential. These are placed in cask and cellared. Since wines from different vintages show variation in character, concentration and...
Fonseca Tawny Port 20 Year Old
It was once observed that it is easier to make a fine vintage port than a fine old tawny. Forecasting a young wine's development up to four decades in the future; blending to preserve, initially, the wine's freshness over time and, later, the style of the final blend; and finally, the...
