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750ml
Bottle: $77.11 $85.68
6 bottles: $68.40
Blend dominated by Touriga Franca (41%) and Touriga Nacional (37%). Mainly picked eight days after the mid-September...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $18.32 $19.28
12 bottles: $13.19
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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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $18.32 $19.28
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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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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $13.99
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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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $22.88 $24.08
12 bottles: $17.42
On its release in 1969, our Special Reserve revolutionised the industry and a single taste will tell you why....
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $37.89 $39.88
6 bottles: $30.19
Soft and ripe, this toffee-flavored, gentle wine is fruity, rich and smooth. Just the right bite of acidity and...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $62.78 $66.08
6 bottles: $54.00
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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750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $16.25
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $15.94 $16.66
12 bottles: $15.83
Aromas of ripe blueberries and mulberries with rose petals and peppery undertones. Medium-bodied with polished...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $12.36 $13.01
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750ml
Bottle: $19.08 $21.20
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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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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $17.82 $19.60
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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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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $14.62 $16.25
12 bottles: $12.35
Fun, forward and brimming with blueberry and blackberry cobbler notes, laced with a hint of bramble that keeps this...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $27.60
12 bottles: $22.80
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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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $14.93 $16.25
12 bottles: $12.73
Dark in profile, offering mulled raisin, cinnamon and toffee notes, but this is relatively fresh and open-knit in...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $14.93 $15.84
Aromas of fig, dried red berries, and burnt sugar are bright and focused. The deep flavors carry the sweetness well...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $17.49
6 bottles: $16.66
More reserved, sometimes serious, and often sweet, D by Duorum Tawny Port's aroma combines ripe fruit with dry fruits...
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $24.44
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Red
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle: $18.24
Bursting with black cherry and blackberry fruit, this red is succulent and all about the luscious fruit. Ends with...
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750ml
Bottle: $128.15 $142.39
A blackstrap, powerful Port. Black, with intense aromas of raspberries, raisins, flowers and stems. Full-bodied and...
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Dolcetto Petite Sirah Port Blend 750ml

In Italian, Dolcetto means 'little sweet one' – a slightly misleading name, as the black grapes of this varietal have relatively little natural sugar and almost almost produce dry wines. However, the Dolcetto grapes are remarkably popular with those looking for a full, rounded and highly flavorful wine, and are grown extensively in their native Italy, and in many other countries around the world. Dolcetto varietal grapes tend to have quite a high level of tannin, due to their thick, black skins, and low acidity, resulting in interesting wines with a large feel in the mouth, despite being relatively light in body. They are most commonly associated with big, complex flavors such as liquorice and prunes, and are regularly described as having a finish similar to the flavor of bitter almonds.

Petite Sirah was first brought from France to America in the 1880s. It later went on to become one of the only grapes to make it through the devastating Phylloxera virus in the 1890s, both World Wars, and the Great Depression. During Prohibition, it was a main ingredient used to make sacramental wines. In fact, through the 1960s it was a major blending grape in a number of the finest wines produced in California.

By itself, a bottle of Petite Sirah usually has no problem making a quick impression on consumers. With a large amount of natural color and tannins, wines made with the grape commonly feature intensive sweet fruit characteristics like fresh raspberry or blackberry jam, black pepper spice, and plenty of backbone or structure.

There are a number of different styles available. Some concentrate on highlighting fresh, fruity flavors; others are bigger, more voluptuous; and it keeps going up the ladder until you reach the powerful, more machismo-style category.

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.