Portugal
Portugal
Quinta do Noval Vintage Port 2014
Regular price £78.00Deep dark ruby-purple with a spicy and wild berry nose, with soft velvety, ripe black fruits, great freshness and balance. Elegant yet powerful. Full-bodied and fleshy with firm backbone of tannins and a long finish. Very seductive and perfectly delicious now, but will of course repay decades of bottle ageing and reveal its full potential over time.
Country: Portugal
Region: Douro
Grapes: Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca
and Tinta Roriz and Sousão
ABV: 20%
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE 2014 VINTAGE
The heavy rainfall that we had in 2013/2014, well
distributed throughout the year, reasonable temperatures
in winter and a fresh month of August, enabled the vines to
maintain a healthy appearance, with lots of leaves
throughout the cycle, which protected the grapes from the
peaks of heat during the summer, safeguarding the health
of the bunches. At the end of August, the harvest was
looking wonderful, with beautiful healthy grapes and an
excellent sugar and acidity balance, ideal for making great
Port.
Graham's Six Grapes Reserve Ruby Port 75cl
Regular price £15.95Six Grapes is one of Graham’s original Port labels. It is a delicious, brilliant value for money wine, with grapes sourced from the same vineyards (Quinta dos Malvedos and Quinta das Lages) that make to Graham’s Vintage Ports in ‘declared’ years. Full-bodied, with rich, ripe black fruit on the palate and wild berry aromas.
The 6 distinctive grape bunches on the bottle is taken from the identification symbols historically used in the Graham’s Bodega to identify the wines destined to make up the Six Grapes blend.
Country: Portugal
Region: Douro Valley
ABV: 20%
Grapes: Touriga Nacional, Tinta Roriz, Tinta Barocca
Grahams Blend No5 White Port White Port 750ml
Regular price £22.95Fresh citrus fruit and apple aromas, with liquorish and tropical notes...
Country: Portugal
Region: Douro Valley
Grapes:
ABV: 18%
Wonderful as a long summer drink with a slice of fresh orange and tonic...
White Port & Tonic Recipe
• 50ml Blend N 5
• Light Tonic Water
• Fresh Mint
• Slice of Lemon
Pour Blend N 5 into a highball glass with plenty of ice. Top up with tonic and garnish with fresh mint & a lemon slice.
Blandy’s 10 Year Old Gift Box 4x20cl
Regular price £37.95
Blandy's 10yo Bual, Sercial, Verdelho and Malmsey 20cl bottles in a lovely gift set. Perfect for someone who loves Madeira, but can't choose their favourite style.
Rich and intense, with enviable rancio characteristics. Mocha, toffee and dried apricot flavours and scents. Very long on the finish.
Great intensity, revealing a bouquet of dried fruits such as figs and prunes, with notes of almonds and oak and subtle hints of toffee and vanilla spice. The palate is sumptuous. Medium sweet and very smooth with a superb balance of coffee and fruit flavours with a clean and sharp acidity. Lovely persistent aftertaste.
Country: Portugal
Region: Madeira
Grapes: Bual
ABV: 19%
Medium Sweet style
Blandy's 10 YO Bual 500ML
Regular price £24.95Rich and intense, with enviable rancio characteristics. Mocha, toffee and dried apricot flavours and scents. Very long on the finish.
Great intensity, revealing a bouquet of dried fruits such as figs and prunes, with notes of almonds and oak and subtle hints of toffee and vanilla spice. The palate is sumptuous. Medium sweet and very smooth with a superb balance of coffee and fruit flavours with a clean and sharp acidity. Lovely persistent aftertaste.
Country: Portugal
Region: Madeira
Grapes: Bual
ABV: 19%
Medium Sweet style
Blandy's 10 YO Verdelho 500ML
Regular price £24.95“The non-vintage 10-Year-Old Verdelho has a delightful, resinous bouquet with touches of mahogany bureau and hazelnut. The palate is crisp and taut on the entry, with vibrant acidity, and demonstrates more depth and chutzpah than its counterpart Sercial. The finish is focused with a subtle smoky note lingering after the wine has departed”
Blandy’s 10 year old Verdelho is fined and does not require decanting. It is excellent served slightly chilled as an aperitif but is also exceedingly good with soups, oysters, feathered game and patês.
It has been bottled ready for drinking and will keep for several months after opening.
Country: Portugal
Region: Madeira
Grapes: Verdelho
ABV: 19%
Food Match: Strong mature or blue cheese
Medium Sweet
Blandy's 10 YO Malmsey 500ML
Regular price £24.95The rich-styled Malmsey is the most famous of the Madeira grape varietals, located today mostly in the region of São Jorge on the north of the island. The wine is matured in small oak casks, which are naturally heated for 10 years at the Blandy?s Wine Lodges in the centre of Funchal.
Country: Portugal
Region: Madeira
Grapes: Malvasia
ABV: 19%
A dark, rich, sweet style of wine.
Food Match: Chocolate Torte with vanilla Ice Cream
Quinta da Costa do Pinhão, Branco
Regular price £38.80This golden coloured wine has a welcome reductive nose with hints of mineral, gunpowder and stone combined with delicate fruits, citrus and white flowers. Excellent acidity, minerals and herbal touches on the palate this is complex and intense with a lovely long finish.
Country: Portugal
Region: Douro
Grapes: Old Vine Field Blend
ABV: 13%
The wine spent 3 weeks on the skins and was fermented in concrete with minimal interventention. This is a low sulphite wine that is good introduction to the orange wine styles with wonderful texture and tannins.