Chapter 9
Wine & Cheese - Reference
This is the most basic and least expensive style of Port often consumed with lemonade and other mixer drinks. It has a distinctive, deep ruby color and fruity liquorice-like flavor. It is a blend of young, fruity ports from the produce of several harvests, that spends two to three years in stainless steel or wood before it is bottled.
Tawny Port
Is a blend of ports from a number of harvests matured in casks for up to ten years... Tawny’s are often real quality Ports with a very mellow character. The wines eventually lose their ruby red color and become a mature tawny color, and take on a spicy character. Colheita is a tawny but from a single vintage. It must receive a minimum of seven years in wood, until the wine becomes rich and smooth in character. This is the rarest of all Port. Their production, a specialty of the Portuguese Port houses, amounts to less than 0.5% of all Port made. The label must state the year of harvest, together with the date of bottling and should be drunk within a year of that date.
White Port
This accounts for a very small proportion of the Port trade. The vinification is the same as for standard Ruby Port. It is sometimes drunk as an aperitif. White Ports range from very dry to very sweet. The sweetest is designated as Lagrima. These are served straight up or on the rocks.
Types of BOTTLE PORT Unlike Wood Port, this type of Port has matured mainly or at least part of the time, in bottles. Examples include Vintage Port, Vintage Character Port, Late-Bottled Vintage (LBV) and Crusted Port.
Vintage Port
This style of Port is made from grapes grown in a particularly good year and produces the finest Port available. Vintage Port is also on of the most expensive Port styles. Vintage Port comes from a single harvest of exceptional quality, as stated on the bottle, and is bottled after two to three years of cask aging. The wine then spends many years maturing in the bottle. It may take 15 to 50 years for a good Vintage Port to be ready for drinking.
Vintage Character Port
This Port is blended good quality wine taken from different years. It is wooded for approximately four years before it is filtered and bottled and is ready for drinking soon after being bottled. They characteristically have more body and fruit than a tawny but they lack the concentration and complexity of a true vintage Port.
Single-Quinta Ports
These are made in both tawny and vintage styles but with the distinction that they come from only one vineyard. They are generally produced in years that are not declared. In declared years, their grapes often form the backbone of the Vintage Port blends.
Late Bottled Vintage (LBV) LBV is made from a single vintage and has matured for about six years in wood and then fined and filtered before being bottled, where it will continue to improve. The wines have more depth and complexity than a ruby port.
Crusted Port
This is a blend of port from several vintages that have been kept in casks for up to four years. Once bottled, it develops sediment or "crust" as it matures, hence its name.
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