Dow's aged tawnies are known for their distinctive raisin-like and smooth taste. This 10-year matured port also has an exceptionally long, dry aftertaste.
* Taste: powerful, complex, fruit, nuts
* Delicious with: nuts, aged cheese, crème brûlée
* Type: port
Dow's Fine Tawny is a three-year matured blend, using small oak barrels in the lodges of Vila Nova de Gaia. This type of wood aging provides a softer and lighter style of port than the Dow's Ruby that is matured in larger barrels. This tawny port combines subtle fruit flavors with delicious nutty flavors that come from the barrels. Delicious with dried fruit or desserts with creamy flavors.
* Taste: sweet, vanilla, dry aftertaste
* Delicious with: nuts, tapas, fruit cake
* Type: port
The Ruby Port from Barros is all about the intense fruit flavor of blueberries, cassis and blackberries. To retain this fruitiness, the port is made in stainless steel and matures for three years in large oak barrels. This ensures that only little oxygen reaches the wine. Drink this purple-red colored Fine Ruby as an aperitif. After a good meal in combination with a piece of blue cheese. Or with desserts with chocolate. Always good!
* Intense Ruby with the taste of blueberries, cassis and blackberries. Perfect aperitif
* Taste: blueberry, blackberry, cassis
* Great with: blue cheese
* Type: port
"Graham's Late Bottled Vintage, just like a Vintage Port, comes from one year. However, this year is not a "declared" Vintage Port. Vintage Port matures for only two years in barrels and then matures further in the bottle. LBV matures in barrels and is only bottled after four to six years. This longer aging in wood speeds up the development of the port. This means that the Graham's Late Bottled Vintage is ready to drink as soon as it is bottled. A mature style of port with great concentration and complexity structure and perfect balance."
* Taste: powerful, full, fruit, caramel, complex
* Delicious with: chocolate desserts, tutti frutti
* Type: port
The Symington family has owned Dow's Port for four generations. The experience of this English family goes back 100 years. They have been making port in the beautiful Douro valley since the early 19th century. Two of the best vineyards in the Douro belong to Dows: Quinta Senhora da Ribeira and Quinta do Bomfim. These were purchased in 1890 and 1896, making Dow's one of the first port houses to invest in premium vineyards.
* Taste: fruity, spicy, vanilla, soft
* Delicious with: snacks, young cheese, fruit
* Type: port
3.1 60+ in this Graham's 10 Years Old Tawny port you smell nut aromas combined with honey and figs. You taste a rich flavor with lots of ripe fruit ending in a very long, lush aftertaste. This port is a perfect match with sweet pastries, such as apple pie with cinnamon. Best enjoyed slightly chilled!
* Taste: rich, soft, nuts, figs
* Delicious with: apple pie, aged cheese
* Type: port
The grapes for this Fine Tawny Port from Barros are hand-picked in the Portuguese Douro Valley. The addition of wine alcohol gives it an alcohol percentage of 19%. After years of barrel aging in small oak barrels, the wine comes into contact with oxygen. This causes it to lose its color, but certainly not its taste of caramel, figs, dried plums, vanilla and spices. Delicious with mountain cheeses or in combination with desserts with caramel or tiramisu.
* Brown-orange colored with caramel, figs, plums, vanilla and spices
* Taste: caramel, fig, plum
* Delicious with: tiramisu, caramel
* Type: port