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.
Penfolds Australia's most popular fortified port wine is a tawny noted for it's mellowness and consistency. A blend of vintages oak matured at Penfolds Kalimna cellars, in the Barrossa Valley.
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...
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...
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...
Hardys Whiskers Blake Port 2003
Around 1900, the tranquility of Hardys Tintara vineyards were frequently interrupted by the crack of a shotgun and flocks of startled Starlings heading heavenwards. Behind the large gun lurked a roguish little bloke known as Whiskers Blake. Whiskers' job was scaring birds away from the grapes. One look at Whiskers with...
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.
Descended from the fiery ruby Porto wines originally shipped by George Sandeman in 1790, Sandeman Ruby Porto is still made traditionally, to be rich and robust, yet with a special depth of flavour and the finesse, achieved by expertly blending wines from Sandeman's large and varied stock. Brilliant red ruby in...
The Wine Selected from the lighter wines of each year, these Porto are chosen for ageing in small oak casks to develop their style. Sandeman's Tawny Porto has the fruit and style of great Porto, but with an added finesse. Pale in colour and light in body this Port is superb...
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
This delicious port, produced exclusively from white grapes, is matured in oak for three years. It is medium sweet, with body and character.
Sandeman Founders Reserve Port
The Wine Named in honour of the Founder, this Reserve is one of Sandeman's greatest Portos. Selected from the finest lots of each vintage and aged for 5 years. Full of the power, fruit and fire that distinguishes classic Porto, Founders Reserve is the culmination of two hundred years of expertise....
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...
Taylor Fladgate 1st Estate Port
Novice port drinkers can do no better than to begin here: First Estate is a soft and glorious mouthful. It is an outstanding vintage character blend, made at the very first property purchased by the company, Lugar das Lages, in 1744. Rich, fruity and elegant, it is aged for four years...
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...
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...
