Winemaker Notes
A delicious premium ruby port bursting with ripe red fruit and brimming with character. Using grapes from Cockburn's Quinta dos Canais, deep in the Douro Superior, this wine is made up of the estate's finest grapes with Vintage Port potential sourced across three separate vintages, bottled young and exceptionally vibrant.
Bright aromas of blackberry fruit and toffee complement succulent red and black fruit flavors. Great freshness and balance are topped off with moments of explosive peppery spice.
Inspired by Soho tradition, Ruby Soho packs a fruity punch and spicy finish that's perfect for mixing both simple serves and more ambitious cocktails. Cockburn's recommends you start with their reimagined classic: the iconic Port & Lemon.
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Grapes picked at night from Cockburn’s flagship estate, Quinta dos Canais in the Douro Superior. A blend of wines from three years mostly aged in stainless steel, this is a premium ruby Port with real energy and vibrancy. Upfront blackberry and blackcurrant fruit, toffee-like richness, sappy freshness and an explosive peppery spice, not ponderous or heavy. Serve slightly chilled. Pricey for a ruby, but a really great, funky package for a gift.
Port is a sweet, fortified wine with numerous styles: Ruby, Tawny, Vintage, Late Bottled Vintage (LBV), White, Colheita, and a few unusual others. It is blended from from the most important red grapes of the Douro Valley, based primarily on Touriga Nacional with over 80 other varieties approved for use. Most Ports are best served slightly chilled at around 55-65°F. To learn more, see our full Port Wine Guide
The home of Port—perhaps the most internationally acclaimed beverage—the Douro region of Portugal is one of the world’s oldest delimited wine regions, established in 1756. The vineyards of the Douro, set on the slopes surrounding the Douro River (known as the Duero in Spain), are incredibly steep, necessitating the use of terracing and thus, manual vineyard management as well as harvesting. The Douro's best sites, rare outcroppings of Cambrian schist, are reserved for vineyards that yield high quality Port.
While more than 100 indigenous varieties are approved for wine production in the Douro, there are five primary grapes that make up most Port and the region's excellent, though less known, red table wines. Touriga Nacional is the finest of these, prized for its deep color, tannins and floral aromatics. Tinta Roriz (Spain's Tempranillo) adds bright acidity and red fruit flavors. Touriga Franca shows great persistence of fruit and Tinta Barroca helps round out the blend with its supple texture. Tinta Cão, a fine but low-yielding variety, is now rarely planted but still highly valued for its ability to produce excellent, complex wines.
White wines, generally crisp, mineral-driven blends of Arinto, Viosinho, Gouveio, Malvasia Fina and an assortment of other rare but local varieties, are produced in small quantities but worth noting.
With hot summers and cool, wet winters, the Duoro has a maritime climate.