Winemaker Notes
A blend of old Ports with an average age of 10 years and aged in old wooden casks. Aged in very old wooden casks, this exquisite Port is bottled on-demand, allowing it to continue to age and become more complex through its natural evolution with time. With complex notes of dry fruits and wild berries, this Port offers hints of orange peel and creamy toffee.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Lovely sweet primary fruit with dried sweetened papayas, persimmons and nutmeg. Smooth and medium-sweet on the palate, with tea, figs and sweet, sun-dried blackberries and blueberries. Attractive and very well balanced.
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Wine Spectator
Sandalwood and argan oil aromas mix with dried peach, persimmon and black cherry notes to form this slightly sedate yet suave version. A light hazelnut hint echoes on the finish. Shows a distinctive character.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The NV 10 Years Old Tawny Port has a dark color for its age and a nose of nuts, dates and molasses, with a slightly burnt twist. It still has some red fruit nuances and is faintly spirity and not too sweet, with a long finish.
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Wine Enthusiast
This youngest style of aged tawny still shows intensity, wood-aging flavors and richness. The black fruits have been almost entirely subsumed by the rich tawny character of this very fine Port.
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.