Old College Fine Ruby Port

  • Country of Origin Portugal
  • Category Douro
  • Produced in n.c
  • Producer Old College H.P.A. 353 3018
  • Vintage n.c
  • Alcool By Volume n.c
  • Volume n.c

It is here that Port is produced, the most prestigious fortified wine in the world which can be red or white. Before the refinement of the wine fermentation technique, a certain quantity of brandy was added so that yeast does not transform all of the sugar from the grapes into alcohol. Result: a strong but also sweet wine. There are several qualities of Port: simple Ruby, Vintage, Tawny, Colheitas (Tawny from a single vintage), and the Late Bottled Vintage (L.B.V), which was originally wine that had been destined for bottling as Vintage Port, but because of lack of demand was left in the barrel for longer than had been planned. Over time it has become two distinct styles of wine, both of them bottled between four and six years after the vintage, but one style is fined and filtered before bottling while the other is not. Crusted Port may be considered a 'poor man's vintage port'. It is a blend of port wine from several vintages, which, like Vintage Port, is bottled unfiltered, and sealed with a driven cork. Like Vintage Port it needs to be decanted before drinking. Although Crusted ports will improve with age, the blending process is intended to make these wines approachable at a much younger age. The date on a Crusted Port bottle refers to the bottling date, not the year the grapes were grown.

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