Not as good as the Oloroso (also made by Barbadillo), but still a decent amount of flavour for the price Tesco Finest Special Reserve Amontillado Sherry NV, Spain (£6/50cl Tesco) Has all the classic Christmas cake character – walnut, caramel, fig, raisin, clove, cinnamon and so on – along with […]
Fortified Wine
Niepoort The Senior Tawny Port (£18.99 Lea and Sandeman, Bottle Apostle, Butlers Wine Cellar, Duncan Murray) Hovering at a very attractive stage between freshness and maturity, this combines lively fresh red berry flavours with more relaxed caramel, raisin, walnut and mellow old wood characters. Very tasty S(-) Taylor’s 10 Year […]
Wine Tasting Video: Five Tawny Ports
Adega de Monção Vinho Verde 2011 (£5.95 The Wine Society) Young and briny, with an Alka Seltzer/sherbetty spritz, and tangy pear and ripe red apple flesh. B+ Quinta da Romaneira Douro White 2011 (£16.99 Corks Out, Wine Utopia, Winearray, The Fine Wine Company, Exel Wines, The Wine Reserve, Liberty Wines) […]
Wine Tasting Video: Portuguese White, Rosé & Port
Waitrose Solera Jerezana Palo Cortado (Lustau) NV, Jerez, Spain (£8.99 Waitrose) Yum. Rich but dry style, think of the flavours in Christmas cake with a tangy, biting briny edge, very moreish, with lovely depth and freshness, could sip this all evening. S(+) Taylor’s 10 Year Old Tawny Port, Portugal (£22.00 Booths, […]
Wine Tasting Video: Fortified wine – Port, Sherry & Madeira
Noval 10 Year Old Tawny (£18.99 Waitrose, Ocado, Fortnum & Mason, Tanners, Roberson, Cambridge Wine Merchants, Oxford Wine Company, Luvians, Fine Cheese Company) Raisins, citrus peel, Christmas cake spices and a touch of walnut combine with an old furniture aroma to tasty effect. Showing the gentleness of maturity, but still […]
Wine Tasting Video: Tawny, Colheita & LBV Ports
Samos Co-op Anthemis 2005, Samos, Greece (£7.50/half The Wine Society) The classic barley sugar and grapey headiness of Muscat are joined by gentle floral and fresh vanilla edges. Sweet and sticky, in a fruit-cake-y way, but still has some zesty orange peel acidity to keep it fresh. B+ Warre’s Otima […]