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750ml
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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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750ml
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Very deep colour with compote of red berries, ripe concentration on the nose with aguardiente following onto the...
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375ml
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Ripe and opulent plummy fruit on the nose, big and bold. Well extracted deep fruits on the palate framed by well...
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750ml
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Ripe and opulent plummy fruit on the nose, big and bold. Well extracted deep fruits on the palate framed by well...
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750ml
Bottle: $16.94
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An elegant style that light-footedly dances across the tongue. Subtle layers of flavour play across the senses. Much...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $18.64
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Really rich, roasted nuts on the nose with beeswax and honey. Very intense palate with a baked, rustic character....
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750ml
Bottle: $32.94
12 bottles: $32.28
Well-integrated and harmonious, with a rich, creamy Christmas cake complexity on the nose and palate, building to a...
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750ml
Bottle: $27.12
This rich style is shot through with acidity, old wood flavors and juicy lemon. It is fresh with great fruitiness as...
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750ml
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Aged in small 550L old oak casks in Niepoort’s cellars at Vila Nova de Gaia, this svelte 10-year-old has detail and...
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750ml
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The NV Black cuvée comes half from estate vineyards (the rest is sourced from the Cima Corgo region in the Douro...
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750ml
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A chip off the (40-year-old) block, Quinta do Noval’s 20-year-old has excellent structure and drive. Together with...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $44.95 $48.00
RATED BEST PORT 20 YEAR TAWNY 2022. Dark amber color. Aromas and flavors of trail mix with pronounced toasted almond,...
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750ml
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This is a beautifully concentrated wine. Rich and dense, it offers dried fruits, spice and intensity. The wine’s...
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750ml
Bottle: $25.30 $27.20
#74 in Top 100 Value Wines, 2021. Beautiful sweet berries with walnut, toffee and caramel undertones on the nose. The...
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Port Blend NV Portugal Rapid Ship

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.

Benefiting from both the hot, dry Iberian climate as well as brisk Atlantic winds, Portugal is a perfectly situated country for vineyard cultivation and wine production. With a wine making history which stretches back thousands of years, it comes as little surprise that wine plays an important role in the cultural identity and practices of the country. The Phoenicians, the Carthaginians, the Greeks and the Romans all had a hand in forming Portugal as an important center for wine production, and over the millennia, this resulted in each region of this beautiful part of Europe producing its own distinctive wines easily identifiable and separate from neighboring Spain's. Today, the varied terroir and climate across Portugal allows a great range of wines to be made each year, from the fresh and dry Vinho Verde wines to the famous and widely drunk fortified Port wines, and many in between.