Fortified Wines

Fresh citrus fruit and apple aromas, with liquorish and tropical notes...

Country: Portugal

Region: Douro Valley

Grapes: 56% Rabigato, 32% Gouveio, 12% Viosinho

ABV: 18%

Wonderful as a long summer drink with a slice of fresh orange and tonic...

Serve at 6 to 8 degrees centigrade

Christmas in a bottle!

Argentina has almost made the Malbec grape its own and on this evidence it's not difficult to see why. A port style wine, red purple colour of medium intensity, with light brown hues due to its ageing. Immensely concentrated, ripe plums, black fruits marmalade, dried figs and nuts. A rich, complex wine with final spicy notes like cinnamon, toasted almonds and leather.

Country: Argentina

Region: Mendoza

Grapes: 100% Malbec

ABV: 20%

Zuccardi combines forward thinking with a deeply rooted wine culture to craft wines of unique quality and identity. At the heart of this family winery is the drive to continually improve and with Sebastian Zuccardi heading up their 'Innovation and Experimentation' program, they are literally taking quality to new heights. After many months of building and many years of planning the breath taking new winery, in Altamira in the Uco Valley, is all but complete. At 1100 metres above sea level with the Andes as it's stunning backdrop, a new chapter in the history of Zuccardi is beginning. This is one of the most exciting producers to work with. Their understanding of the soils and terroirs of the Uco Valley is reflected in their beautifully expressive wines.

Elegant and complex with touches of spice on the nose, full of flavour  palate with dried fruits, oak and honey balanced with an attractive freshness.

Country: Portugal

Region: Douro Valley

Grapes: Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz

ABV: 20%

Red-violet colour, a nose of ripe forest fruits. In the mouth, it is elegant, silky fruity and complex. A classic Late Bottled Vintage from Porto's oldest Port house. 

Country: Portugal

Region: Douro

Grapes: Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca
and Tinta Roriz and Sousão

ABV: 20%

An LBV Port from the historical Delaforce Port house.

A Port of deep ruby colour with intense aromas of plums, fresh berries and liquorice revealing immense complexity. Very fruity on the palate, with round tannins in a perfectly balanced structure. 

Country: Portugal

Region: Douro

ABV: 20%

Grapes: Field Blend (ie....they dont know exactly!..but its the typical Port varieties)

Food Match: Great with blue cheese like Gorgonzola, Stilton and creamy dolcelatte.

Late Bottled Vintage Ports unlike Vintages are only bottled 4 years after their ageing period in oak. This process of Late Bottling allows the wine to benefit from oxygenic evolution in large barrels making them soft, round and enjoyable to drink now. The LBV Port has been an alternative for Vintage Port lovers who prefer not to wait for long-term bottle ageing. 

Brick red appearance, with a very rich aroma of very ripe fruit (grapes and overripe figs) as well as dried fruits (nuts and almonds),caramel and coffee. On the palate fresh and elegant with good acidity. The long finish is dominated by dried fruits.

Country: Portugal

Region: Douro Valley

Grapes: Tinta Roriz,Touriga Franca,Touriga Nacional,Tinto Cão,Tinta Francisca,Tinta Amarela,Sousão

ABV: 20%

This Port has a beautiful red gold appearance in the glass. Expressing aromas of dried cranberry, raisin and rich plum. As well as notes of cedar and Christmas pudding. 

On the palate this wine is lusciously balanced with flavours of candied orange peel and plum. Followed by a lasting, spicy finish.

Country: Portugal

Region: Douro Valley

Grapes: Tinta Roriz, Tinta Barroca, Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca

ABV: 19.5%

Gorgeous, deep golden colour. Rich, sweet and nutty nose. Softly sweet and wonderfully balanced palate. Perfect chilled as an aperitif.

Country: Portugal

Region: Douro Valley

Grapes: Malvasia

ABV: 20%

An alternative vanilla ice cream sauce! Super-sweet, raisined goodness, we love this stuff....

Country: Spain

Region: Jerez

Grapes: Pedro Ximenez

ABV: 15%

Made from 75% Palomino grape, blended with Pedro Ximènez. Dark mahogany in colour it is velvety soft on the palate conjuring flavours of dried figs and raisins, with a toffee finish.

Country: Spain

Region: Jerez

Grapes: 75% Palomino 25% Pedro Ximenez

ABV: 18%

2007 was a fabulous year for creating balanced Vintage ports in the Morgadio da
Calçada style with great structure along with fine elegance and finesse. Wonderful to
taste now, but for those with patience this wine will be amazing in a few decades.

Country: Portugal

Region: Douro Valley

Grapes: Touriga Franca, Tinta
Roriz, Tinto Cão, Tinta Francisca, Tinta
Amarela, Sousão and others,
including Touriga Nacional

ABV: 20.5%

NOVAL BLACK is a new way to drink Port, a new-age Port destined to be enjoyed with dark chocolate or simply drunk chilled, used also as a cocktail ingredient. 

A deliciously smooth and rich Port with masses of black fruit flavours, raisins, prunes and hints of chocolate. 

Country: Portugal

Region: Port

ABV:19.5%

Grapes: Port varieties

Stunning Palo Cortado style sherry from Gonzalez Byass. Made from Amontillado sherry, ageing for 12 years before bottling to create a delicately sweet and nutty wine. Drink chilled as an aperitif or with food.

Country: Spain

Region: Jerez

Grapes: Palomino

ABV: 20%

Aromatic and fresh. Great on it's own over ice or in a gin martini. Yum.

Country: Spain

Region: Galicia

Grapes: Albarino

ABV: 15%

Essentially, this is an aged fino style sherry...dry, saline, slightly oaky and nutty. Delicious.

Country: Spain

Region: Jerez

Grapes: Palomino

ABV: 16.5%

Rich and dry with a nutty character, with a generous 30 years of maturation in oak adding layers of complexity and flavour.

Country: Spain

Region: Jerez

Grapes: Palomino

ABV: 21.5%

Delicious, rich, nutty aromas followed by stem ginger hints on the palate and a dried fruit finish.

Country: Portugal

Region: Douro

Grapes: Malvasia Fina

ABV: 20%

Blandy's 5yo Sercial, Verdelho, Bual, and Malmsey 5cl bottles in a lovely gift set. Perfect for someone who loves Madeira, but can't choose their favourite style.

Country: Portugal

Region: Madeira

Grapes: Bual, Sercial, Verdelho, Malmsey

ABV: 19%

Wonderful aromas and flavours of dried fruit, vanilla pod , sweet spice and dried herbs.

Native botanicals used: wormwood (magical plant), bay leaves, lemon verbena, mint, rosemary, thyme, sage, lemon balm, chamomile, hibiscus flowers, lemon pulp, sweet orange peel and bitter. Dark red hue with highlights of copper, this vermut awakens in the mouth a perfect combination between sweetness, acidity and bitterness. The nose has sweet fruity notes along with pastry, which are mixed with light spices and balsamic. It has great length and complexity on the palate.

Country: Spain

Region: Galicia

Grapes: Albarino

ABV: 15%

From an artisan, small batch producer of exquisite, craft vermouths. Based in Galicia and using Albarino wines as the base for their vermouths. The distinctive bottles are inspired by Salvador Dalí and handmade from porcelain.
Native botanicals used: wormwood (magical plant), bay leaves, lemon verbena, mint, rosemary,
thyme, sage, lemon balm, chamomile, hibiscus flowers, lemon pulp, sweet orange peel and bitter.
Dark red hue with highlights of copper, this vermut awakens in the mouth a perfect combination
between sweetness, acidity and bitterness. The nose has sweet fruity notes along with pastry, which
are mixed with light spices and balsamic. It has great length and complexity on the palate.

Tastes like blended alcoholic sweet-raisins - one of the most amazing sweet dessert wines.

Reaches the parts other PX’s can’t! Voted ‘Best Sweet Fortified’ at the 2019 Wines from Spain Awards. Contains all the drama and intensity you would expect from a 20 year old plus, 500g/l sugar PX, and you can drink it too. There is coffee, liquorice, sweet tobacco, prunes, figs, raisins, tea and a dozen other fleeting scents with a surprising lightness and delicacy. An incredible, seductive, luscious and wonderful to drink sherry.

Country: Spain

Region: Jerez

ABV: 15%

Grapes: Pedro Ximenez

From one of the most highly regarded Sherry producers in the region. One of the wine worlds best value regions.

Tangy, zesty flavours of green apple and citrus followed with the classic yeasty, bready notes of Sherry. Enjoy it as a refreshing aperitif on a hot day, or as the locals do along side some mixed tapas such as prawns, jamon, garlic clams and piemento padron.

Country: Spain

Region: Jerez

ABV: 15%

Grapes: Palomino Fino

Elegance is our raison d'etre at QPA, which is embodied in our Vintage Port. Showing complex aromas of red, blue and black fruits, with chocolate, spice notes and lifted aromatics. This is a rich, restrained, elegant style of Vintage Port with a complex, seamless palate. 

Drink now to accompany Stilton or Gorgonzola, or cellar as it will gain further complexity over the next 20 years.

Country: Portugal

Region: Douro Valley

Grapes: Touriga Nacional (49%), Touriga Franca (27.5%), Tinta Roriz (13%), Sousão (9%), Tinta Barroca (1.5%)

ABV: 19.5%

Palo cortado is a special type of sherry that starts its life and maturation under protective flor, destined to become a fino or amontillado.

Partway through the maturation it loses its veil of flor and begins oxidative ageing as an oloroso sherry would.

This combined maturation results in a wine with some of the richness of oloroso and some of the freshness of amontillado. It is a rare beverage though as just 1 to 2% of the grapes pressed for sherry naturally develop into palo cortado.

A very full-flavoured sherry with fruit intensity and concentration on the nose and palate. Lots of dried fruit with light toffee sweetness and oak caramel. Delicious!

Country: Spain

Region: Jerez

Grapes: Palomino and Pedro Ximenez

ABV: 20%

Food Match:

Fernando de Castilla's Vermut is made with a combination of Oloroso and Pedro Ximenez sherries, with 27 botanicals. Sweet and full-bodied yet silky smooth with an excellent balance of bitterness – great with ice and soda.

Truly awesome! The awesomeness of which will set any sherry aficionados taste buds trembling.

A fine rare wine, which combines the pure tangy nuttiness of Amontillado with the smooth smoky richness of Oloroso in an elegant complex style.

Country: Spain

Region: Jerez

ABV: 20%

Grapes: Palomino

Bodegas Rey Fernando de Castilla is located in the historic centre of Jerez. Its story began with the aristocratic Andrada-Vanderwilde family, who for two centuries provided grapes and wine for the production of sherry in the area. In 1972 Fernando Andrada-Vanderwilde took over some old sherry cellars and brandy soleras from a couple of local bodegas, and changed the name of the company from Fernando III to Fernando de Castilla.