GRAHAMS 40 Year Old Tawny Port 75cl Bottle

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All of Graham’s Tawny Ports have their own individual characteristics, the complex flavours and aromas that pervade each of these unique wines have been developed through selecting only our top quality wines from Graham’s four spectacular Quinta’s in the Douro Valley to age in seasoned oak casks in our 1890 Lodge in Vila Nova de Gaia. Tawny"" port produced outside Portugal is rarely aged long enough to develop a natural tawny colour. While Porto produced in Portugal is strictly regulated by the Instituto do Vinho do Porto, many wines in the U. unless we get written confirmation from you that this is acceptable and that you will take full responsibilty if the parcel goes missing.

In much the same way as the 20 and 30 Year Old Tawny, the 40 Year Old is a masterclass in the art of blending aged wines but stepped up another notch. The Instituto dos Vinhos do Douro e Porto (IVDP or Port and Douro Wine Institute) regulates the Port industry in Portugal. In 1820 the two brothers, William and John Graham, started as textile merchants and later ventured into the wine industry.Unfiltered or ""Traditional"" LBV ports require decanting like vintage ports do, and may improve in the bottle. The palate is a gamut of flavours, ranging from delicate fruit and raisins to burnt toffee and chocolate. Grahams 40 Year Old Tawny Port has a golden amber colour, with a pale green tinge on the rim, denoting great age. Under the new ownership, the company produced the 1970 Vintage Port, which is considered as one of the best wines of the century, to date.

If the person being thus queried does not know the ritual (and so replies in the negative), the querent will remark ""He's an awfully nice fellow, but he never remembers to pass the port"".Including using solar power to generate electricity and recycling materials used in the winemaking process. Grahams aged tawnies show a characteristic “nutty” quality and delicious mature honeyed fruit, exquisitely mellowed by ageing in seasoned oak casks.

After receiving twenty seven barrels of Port as a payment through their textiles business, they decided to focus all their energy on making the best Port wines from the Douro Valley. On the palate, an array of flavours from delicate fruit and raisins to toasted toffee and chocolate with an outstanding after taste. O. Tawny Port is a beautifully aged and luxurious fortified wine that showcases rich and complex flavors.These are among the most demanding and challenging styles of Port to produce, requiring great skill and years of experience from the winemaker.