Porto Gran Cruz 20 Yrs

Porto Gran Cruz 20 Yrs, known as a dessert wine, port is also an excellent aperitif and a good match for cheese.  Try ruby port with hard savoury cheeses and rich desserts with dark berries; tawny port with dried fruit, nut pastries and chocolate; LBV with milder blue cheeses and chocolate desserts; vintage port with Stilton or as a ‘meditation wine’; and sweet white port with pears cooked in wine. Port tonic, i.e. dry white port blended with tonic water, is a great aperitif.

The traditional port family has many members, such as ruby, tawny, white port, late bottled vintage port (LBV) and vintage port.

Ruby ports have intense berry, ripe fruit and spicy notes. Tawny ports are aged in barrels for longer and have mature nut, date and fig notes. LBVs have richer and more spicy flavours than ruby ports, and vintage ports continue to mature in the bottle for years, or even decades