Port
Port
Fortified wine from the Douro in northern Portugal. Fermentation is stopped part-way by adding grape spirit, which leaves natural sweetness in the wine and lifts it to around 20% alcohol. Everything else about Port follows from how it is aged afterwards.
The two families
Aged in bottle: Vintage Port is declared only in the best years, bottled after about two years, and then does the rest of its ageing in glass — it needs decades and throws heavy sediment. LBV (Late Bottled Vintage) is the same idea, kept longer in cask, ready on release.
Aged in cask: Tawny spends years in wood and comes out paler, nuttier and less fruity, sold as 10, 20, 30 or 40 Year Old. Colheita is a single-vintage Tawny. Ruby is the young, simple, fruit-forward tier.
Which to buy
If you want to open it tonight, buy Tawny or LBV. If you want to keep it, buy Vintage. The practical difference matters after opening too: a Vintage Port must be finished within a day or two, while a 10 or 20 Year Old Tawny keeps for weeks in the fridge — which makes Tawny the sensible choice for a household that drinks a glass at a time.
Serving
Vintage Port at 16–18°C, decanted off its sediment. Tawny is better lightly chilled, 14–16°C.
Filters
Quarles Harris Vintage Port 2000 (1x75cl)
W & J Graham's "Ne Oublie" Very Old Tawny Port 1882 (1x75cl)
W & J Graham's 10 Years Old Tawny Port (1x450cl)
W & J Graham's 20 Years Old Tawny Port (1x20cl)
W & J Graham's 40 Years Old Tawny Port (1x450cl)
W & J Graham's 40 Years Old Tawny Port (1x75cl)
W & J Graham's Single Harvest Tawny Port 1974 (1x75cl)
W & J Graham's Single Harvest Tawny Port 1990 (1x450cl)
W & J Graham's Single Harvest Tawny Port 1994 (1x450cl)
W & J Graham's Single Harvest Tawny Port 1997 (1x75cl)
W & J Graham's Vintage Port 2003 (1x75cl)
W & J Graham's Vintage Port 2007 (1x75cl)
W & J Graham's Vintage Port 2011 (1x37.5cl)
Warre's Vintage Port 1977 (1x75cl)
Warre's Vintage Port 2000 (1x75cl)
De Krans Cape Ruby Port (1x75cl)
RCV Oporto 20 yrs Tawny (1x75cl)
RCV Oporto Ruby Port (1x75cl)
RCV Oporto Tawny Port (1x75cl)
Royal Oporto LBV Port 2018 (1x75cl)
Royal Oporto Vintage Port 2007 (1x75cl)
Royal Oporto 40 yrs old Port (1x75cl)
RCV Oporto White Port (1x75cl)
W & J Graham's 30 Years Old Tawny Port (1x75cl)
Quinta do Noval Porto 20 Year Old Tawny (1x75cl)
Quinta do Noval Porto Vintage 2022 (1x75cl)
Taylor'S Vargellas Vinha Velha Vintage Port 2011 (1x75cl)
Taylor'S Vinha Velha 2017 (1x75cl)
Taylor'S Vintage Port 2017 (1x75cl)
Taylor'S Vintage Port 2018 (1x75cl)
FONSECA Late Bottled Vintage (LBV) Unfiltered 2019 (1x75cl)
FONSECA Aged Tawny Port 10 Year Old NV (1x75cl)
Dow's 10 Years Old Port (Gift Box) (1x75cl)
Dow's 2016 Vintage Port Tappit Hen - 225cl (Wooden Box) (1x225cl)
Dow's 2017 Vintage Port Tappit Hen - 225cl (Wooden Box) (1x225cl)
Dow's 30 Years Old Port (Gift Box) (1x75cl)
Dow's 40 Years Old Port (Gift Box) (1x75cl)
Dow's LBV Port 2017 - Half Bottle (1x37.5cl)
Dow's Quinta Do Bomfim 2021 (1x75cl)
Dow's Senhora da Ribeira 2013 - Magnum (Wooden Box) (1x150cl)
Dow's Senhora da Ribeira 2015 - Magnum (Individual Wooden Box) (1x150cl)
Dow's Senhora da Ribeira 2018 (1x75cl)
Dow's Senhora da Ribeira 2018 (Individual Wooden Box) (1x75cl)
Dow's Senhora da Ribeira 2019 - Magnum (Individual Wooden Box) (1x150cl)
Dow's Senhora da Ribeira 2019 (1x75cl)
Dow's Senhora da Ribeira 2019 (Individual Wooden Box) (1x75cl)
Dow's Senhora da Ribeira 2022 (1x75cl)
Dow's Senhora da Ribeira Trio Pack (1999+2009+2019) (1x75cl)
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