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Quinta Do Noval Port Vintage 2018
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$73.95
Juicy and muscular, with a ball of plum paste, warmed fig compote and black currant reduction flavors that need time...
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Quinta Do Noval Port Vintage 2020
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$95.79
From an early harvest after a hot summer which produced a small quantity of super-concentrated wines: wonderful...
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Quinta Do Vesuvio Port Vintage 2012
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$60.71
The power of this wine is palpable. Great swathes of rich berry fruits roll around the palate with a not-too-sweet...
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Quinta Do Vesuvio Port Vintage 2017
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$67.94
The 2017 Vintage Port is a blend of 33% Touriga Nacional, 35% Touriga Franca, 15% Sousão and 12% Alicante Bouschet,...
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Quinta Do Vesuvio Port Vintage 2019
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$72.60
This is really vivid, with a beautiful range of cassis, cherry puree, boysenberry coulis and plum reduction notes...
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Sandeman Port Vintage 2011
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$73.92
Well-proportioned, showing fine balance and grip to the fresh boysenberry, red plum and wild cherry flavors. Intense...
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Sandeman Port Vintage 2016
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$109.90
This is a ripe and generous wine, with tannins that are well integrated into the powerful black-fruit core. It is...
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$459.08
This likely auction bottling was sourced from recently acquired old vines that expanded Schlossgut Diel’s share in...
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle:
$44.58
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Smith Woodhouse Port Vintage 2011
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$60.37
Offers an aroma of violet, with powerful, concentrated and refined flavors of raspberry, kirsch, blueberry and spice....
750ml - 1 Bottle
Bottle:
$618.69
$651.25
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Taylor Fladgate Port Vintage 2007
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$70.12
This is a giant of a wine lurking behind fresh flowers and ripe fruit. Starts off in a friendly way, then takes hold...
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Taylor Fladgate Port Vintage 2016
750ml - Case of 6
Bottle:
$75.45
OMG. This is really the most amazing young Taylor’s I have ever tasted. Full-bodied and lightly sweet with super...
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Taylor Fladgate Port Vintage 2016
750ml - Case of 12
Bottle:
$78.95
OMG. This is really the most amazing young Taylor’s I have ever tasted. Full-bodied and lightly sweet with super...
Dessert Wine Port Blend Rum 750ml
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.
It is difficult to categorize rum as a single spirit, because of all the spirits found around the globe, rum is perhaps the one which varies most dramatically from place to place. Clear, white rum - a favorite for cocktail drinkers - is perhaps the most prevalent example found today, but there is a whole world of darker, spiced and molasses-rich rums to explore, thanks to the fascinating history and wide reach this drink has.
Rum came about during the colonial times, when sugar was a huge and world-changing business. The molasses left over from the sugar production industry could easily be distilled into a delicious alcoholic drink, and provided extra income for the sugar traders. Before long, it became a favorite of sailors and transatlantic merchants, and it quickly spread across the Caribbean and Latin America, where it remains highly popular today.
The production of rum is a basic and simple one - you take your molasses, add yeast and water, and then ferment and distil the mixture. However, as is often the case, the devil is in the detail. The variation in yeasts found from place to place, the maturation period, the length of the fermentation and the type of stills and barrels used provide the rainbow-colored variation that gives rum its spectrum of styles and characteristics.