Excellent Selection Martinez Port LBV

This Late Bottled Vintage Port has matured for nearly 6 years in wooden casks. It is full of red fruit and has a velvety smoothness. Ideal for sweet occasions, with cheese, chocolate, and desserts featuring cherries and berries. Color, taste: port, fruity Grape varieties: touriga nacional, touriga franca, sousão, tinta amarela, tinta barroca Country, region: Portugal, Douro Pairs well with: Cheese, Dessert Most ports consist of wines from multiple harvest years. They are blended to create a specific style of a port house. Exceptions are ports from a single harvest year. Vintage is the cream of the crop. These are ports from one outstanding harvest year that produced grapes in top condition. Their wines are bottled after just 2 to 3 years, which is very young for port. They then mature slowly for decades in the bottle. Late Bottled Vintage is a category just below that. It also comes from a single harvest year, but the wine matures longer in wooden casks than a vintage, which means it matures faster and is ready to drink sooner. AH’s Excellent LBV has an intense flavor of ripe red fruit and is very smooth. Delightful on its own, with mild (blue) cheese and desserts with chocolate. Excellent Late Bottled Vintage port, aged 6 years in wood. Blend of traditional Portuguese grape varieties from the Douro valley. Ready to drink, pairs well with desserts featuring dark chocolate and semi-hard/hard cheeses. Tip: Serve port as an aperitif for a festive start to the evening. Port: Fortified wine from Portugal, often enjoyed as a dessert wine.