A Wine Champion 2023 and a ‘benchmark’ tawny, said Matthew Horsley, and ‘bang on the money’ according to Tim Sykes from our tasting panel. Port - Fortified Wine Founded in Porto in 1820 Graham’s is renowned worldwide for producing outstanding Ports. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. International' varieties such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah, Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc are becoming more and more popular in Spain, and their plantings are rising in various Spanish regions.

Better known for red wines, this is one of the only wine regions in Portugal to be dominated by a single grape variety,the tannic, high-acid baga, making wines that can be tough and astringent in their youth but which soften with age, becoming beguilingly perfumed. On the palate, it is rich, softly sweet and smooth, perfectly balanced, with a long and elegant finish. Like all other Churchill’s Ports, the component wines of this Tawny Port have been vinified in traditional granite lagares (treading tanks). Touriga Nacional is an indigenous Portuguese red wine grape variety considered by many to be Portugal's finest. Available by the bottle or case, your wine gift will be individually tailored with a personal message, tasting notes and vintage description.These days many blend baga with non-indigenous grapes to make a friendlier style, but the greatest are pure baga.

A fresh-as-a-daisy 20-year-old that needs neither decanting, nor, in Sebastian Payne MW’s view, eking out once opened!After dinner, 20 years Tawny is a good match with dried fruits, like figs or apricots, blue cheese, and coffee and almonds based desserts. Their Douro wines include the Altano range, Quinta do Ataíde in the Vilariça valley in the upper Douro, and flagship Chryseia, which along with Post Scriptum and Prazo de Roriz, are produced at Quinta de Roriz in a joint venture with Bruno Prats, ex of Château Cos d'Estournel in Bordeaux.

The driver will input your year of birth into their device and may then require an ID check to complete the age verification process. This is a classic example of aged Tawny Port with deliciously mellow scents of dried fruits, honeysuckle, grilled nuts and butterscotch.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The long spice and raisin flavours of this wonderful port is the result of combining the very best fruit with generations of expertise at Graham's, one of the port houses that belongs to the B Corp Certified Symington Family Estates. The extra years of wood-ageing softens the colour of Aged Tawnies and give them greater complexity and their typical nut and raisin characteristics.

Pairs extremely well with nuts, dried fruits and fruitcake, as well as vanilla ice cream and crème brûlée. A great choice for an endless array of desserts, such as toffee brownies, chocolate and pistachio pavé, or crostini of walnuts with chevre. Warm and inviting, the aroma is graced with spicy overtones, reminiscent of cinnamon and butterscotch, which impart a comforting and luxurious quality to the wine. Supporting the artisan wine world through passion for innovation, diversity, and authenticity in wine. Despite the low yields from its small grapes, it plays a big part in the blends used for ports, and is increasingly being used for table wine.Founded in 1981 by legendary winemaker Johnny Graham, Churchill’s has built a reputation for making award-winning Port and Douro wine in its founder’s unique and personal style. Fabulous accompaniment to dark chocolate, but can also be enjoyed alone as a dessert in its own right.