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Broad, ripe black fruit and spice aromas, with notes of pepper, toasty vanilla and Mediterranean scrub. On the...
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Notes of ripe plums, cherry jam and tobacco characterize the bouquet of this pure varietal Primitivo from the Apulia...
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Blend dominated by Touriga Franca (41%) and Touriga Nacional (37%). Mainly picked eight days after the mid-September...
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Our Fine White has long been served as an aperitif at daytime (and evening) get togethers in the Douro. But now...
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Comfortable in any setting, our ultra-adaptable Fine Ruby has a bright and fruity style that mixes as easily as it...
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And if you don’t, you need to know. Our Fine Tawny has fervent fans around the world who love it for its...
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On its release in 1969, our Special Reserve revolutionised the industry and a single taste will tell you why....
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Soft and ripe, this toffee-flavored, gentle wine is fruity, rich and smooth. Just the right bite of acidity and...
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A fresh style, with a focused beam of peanut, toffee, caramel and date flavors underscored by a flash of green tea....
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Deep purple color. This fragrance is chockfull of waxy, woody and dried fruit scents that are simultaneously profound...
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Original, unique and innovative, croft pink was the first ever rosé port, and is still today, the one rosé port...
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Fun, forward and brimming with blueberry and blackberry cobbler notes, laced with a hint of bramble that keeps this...
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The NV 10 Year Old Tawny Port comes in at 110 grams per liter of residual sugar. It was bottled in 2014 with a bar...
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Dark in profile, offering mulled raisin, cinnamon and toffee notes, but this is relatively fresh and open-knit in...
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Aromas of fig, dried red berries, and burnt sugar are bright and focused. The deep flavors carry the sweetness well...
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More reserved, sometimes serious, and often sweet, D by Duorum Tawny Port's aroma combines ripe fruit with dry fruits...
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A blackstrap, powerful Port. Black, with intense aromas of raspberries, raisins, flowers and stems. Full-bodied and...
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Shows the intense ripeness of the vintage with hints of raisins and other dried fruits. Full-bodied, medium sweet and...
Other Italian Reds Port Blend Primitivo
Port wine is Portugal’s great gift to the world. Coming from the ancient harbour capital city of Porto and the surrounding Douro Valley region, Port wine has been made by Portuguese vintners for at least four hundred years, although viticulture has been continually happening in the area for well over two thousand years. Port is a fortified wine, meaning it is a wine which has been bolstered by the addition of grape brandy. Originally, this was used as a method of preservation, allowing the delicate Portuguese wines to survive the journey by sea to trading partners in the UK and France. However, the wonderful taste and unique character the fortification process lends to the wine soon became massively popular, and before long, this new wine style was a hit all across Europe.
Unlike some other fortified wines, Port is made by adding brandy before the wine itself has completed its fermentation. The result of this is that plenty of the grapes’ natural sweetness is maintained in the barrel, meaning it is exceptionally smooth and rounded on the palate. Port comes in many different styles - Tawny Port wines are prized for their richness and mellow character, Reserve and Late Bottled Ports are full of fruit flavor. Vintage Port is a complex, wonderful thing - capable of standing up to some of the finest wines in the world when it comes to depth of flavor and fascinating features.
As with many European grape varietals, there is some debate regarding the precise origins of the Primitivo grape. Most people now agree that it probably came from Croatia, where it is still used widely in the production of red wine, and it known as Tribidrag. However, today it is a grape most commonly associated with the powerful red wines of Puglia, the heel of Italy’s boot, where the intense sunshine and brisk Mediterranean breezes produce grapes of remarkable character and balance. Primitivo is a dark grape, known for producing intense, inky, highly tannic wines, most notably the naturally sweet Dolce Naturale and the heavy and complex Primitivo di Manduria wines. Primitivo tends to be naturally very high in both tannin and alcohol, making it ideal for both barrel and cellar ageing, which brings out its more rounded and interesting features.
Primitivo is not the easiest grape to grow or manage, and it has had something of a difficult century. Indeed, by the 1990s, there was little interest in Puglian wines in general, and winemakers were neglecting their Primitivo vineyards and looking to other, more commercially viable varietals. However, the last decade has seen this grape come well and truly back into fashion, with new techniques and a heightened interest in native Italian grape varietals bringing Primitivo back into the spotlight. It is now widely loved for its intensity and ability to be paired with strongly flavored foods.