Dow's Christmas Port 75cl Bottle in Wooden Gift Box

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An opaque blue/purple colour (typical of this vintage's top offerings) is followed by a strikingly provocative aromatic display (flowers, licorice, blackberries, and cassis). While Port (named after its city of Oporto on the Atlantic Coast at the end of the Douro Valley), made Portugal famous, Portugal is also an excellent source of dry red and white Portuguese wines of various styles.

The family, whose experience dates back over 100 years, supervises all the vineyards, winemaking and ageing of this wine. The 2015 Quinta da Senhora da Ribeira Vintage Port was produced from one co-fermented lagar of Touriga Franca and Sousão (0. Throughout the 20th Century and into the 21st, the Symington family has built on the legacy of the preceding Silva and Dow families.The nose is just beginning to evolve into musky, dried plum and raisin aromas with whiffs of tree bark, nutmeg, cumin and cloves. It is blended from from the most important red grapes of the Douro Valley, based primarily on Touriga Nacional with over 80 other varieties approved for use. If this is not an option and you have questions beyond the offered description and images, please contact us for a more in-depth condition report. Best known for intense, impressive and age-worthy fortified wines, Portugal relies almost exclusively on its many indigenous grape varieties. This needs drinking within two to three days of opening, so it’s perhaps best for a party of big family gathering.

Senhora da Ribeira’s wines are some of the finest in the Douro and they complement those from Bomfim in the composition of Dow’s classic Vintage Ports.

Deep red in colour, this feels a little thinner in texture than some others on our list, but the wine itself really comes through. The style, which has some similarities to a tawny, is aged in wood for a minimum of seven years before being bottled. Serve at room temperature on its own or with vintage mature blue cheeses such as stilton, Cashel Blue, Roquefort, Gorgonzola and Saint Augur Blue. Importing wine from his home country, he was quickly accepted into London society and gained a fine reputation for his wines. The first sip will give you quite an intense hit of orange-peel, followed by a little burnt sugar, followed by a hit of berries and finishing with some savoury, pastry-like, bready notes.