Graham’s 20 Year Old Tawny Port 75cl

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The wine produced is then fortified by the addition of a neutral grape spirit known as aguardente to stop the fermentation, leaving residual sugar in the wine. In the 20 Year Old tawny, the fruit has mellowed further than in the 10 Year Old, and the spicy, nutty aromas of ageing are more powerful and intense. Gold, Decanter World Wine Awards: A lovely rounded wine showing aromas of salted caramel, spice, dried fruit, toasted nuts, honey and wood. Kopke, a house specialising in aged tawny and aged white ports, is the oldest established port producer, in existence since 1638.

As is normal with these aged tawnies, the La Rosa twenty year old has incredible length and is an ‘aristocrat’ of ports. It will use renewable energy and the layout has been designed to maximise the amount of wine transfers that can be achieved through gravity. These casks have contributed to the wine's development, imbuing it with layers of complexity and depth.A wet and fertile area, the grapes ripen with moderate sugar levels and refreshing acidity, meaning that the wines are usually lowish in alcohol at about 10-11%. These days many blend baga with non-indigenous grapes to make a friendlier style, but the greatest are pure baga. If you stay in a Douro Quinta you are more than likely to find a bottle or two of this in the fridge. Petersham Cellar is a wine merchant that promotes an ever-evolving hand selected and carefully sourced selection of fine and rare wines from the most incredible regions of the world. Atlantic breezes help cool the vineyards and maintain the fresh acidity and aromatics in the mostly white wines.

The wine received its name, "port", in the latter half of the 17th century from the seaport city of Porto at the mouth of the Douro River, where much of the product was brought to market or for export to other countries in Europe. They too have been involved with Port and the Douro for many generations, with ancestry dating back to the mid-17th century.As a Tawny is already finished fermenting, it'll have a decent shelf life (6 months) as well, though you'll be forgiven for drinking it a lot quicker than that. Like its neighbour Spain, Portugal has been undergoing something of a quiet revolution over the last twenty years or so. These cookies are needed for essential functions such as signing in, storing products in your trolley and making payments. Nutty, smoky and complex, paté or farmhouse cheddar are good pairings, or it'll also go well with sweets like pecan pie. An array of flavours, from delicate fruit and raisins, to toasted toffee and chocolate, with an outstanding aftertaste.

During the check out process you will be asked to confirm that you are of legal age to purchase any age-restricted products. This has spent 20 years in cask which has given it a warm rustic amber colour and powerful dried apple and apricot flavours which merge with soft spices and full and nutty on to a long and refined finish. White ports are produced the same way as red ports, except that they use white grapes – Donzelinho Branco, Esgana-Cão, Folgasão, Gouveio, Malvasia Fina, Rabigato and Viosinho. Ferreira gained its current high reputation during the nineteenth century under the leadership of Dona Antónia Ferreira.

The long spice and raisin flavours of this wonderful port is the result of combining the very best fruit with generations of expertise at Graham's, one of the port houses that belongs to the B Corp Certified Symington Family Estates. Better known for red wines, this is one of the only wine regions in Portugal to be dominated by a single grape variety,the tannic, high-acid baga, making wines that can be tough and astringent in their youth but which soften with age, becoming beguilingly perfumed. After a recent visit to Graham's lodge in Porto, I came away thinking that the excellent 20yr old Tawny Port was a prime example of a quality tawny.