Product details
Dow’s ages some of its best Ports for many years in seasoned oak casks in its ancient cellars in Vila Nova de Gaia. This prolonged time in barrel ensures that the wines take on soft almond and walnut aromas, losing the intense red colour of its youth but gaining immense delicacy, richness and profound intensity of flavour. The word ‘Colheita’ means ‘harvest’, for Port this word is used to describe a wine from a single year that has been aged in wood for a minimum of 7 years. Many of the Dow’s Colheitas available today have been aged for considerably longer and Dow’s has one of the finest collections of cask aged Ports in existence today. The family team of tasters regularly tastes all the old tawny Ports as they mature in the cellar. These wines are ‘racked’ two or three times a year and then returned to the original cask. When the tasters judge that the wine has reached the perfect state of maturity, the Port is carefully drawn off the cask and bottled. Due to the long and careful aging process no fining or filtration takes place.
Grape Varieties:
Traditional grape varieties
Tasting Notes:
Amber Auburn colour. Fabulous aroma of toasted almonds with notes of honey, vanilla and candied orange peel, with tobacco nuances. Velvety mouth with fresh notes of orange peel and a final very long mouth.
Store and Serve Advices:
Serving temperature at 15ºC to 16 ºC.
Food Pairing:
Dow’s Colheita Ports are for savouring and quite appreciation for their intense and rare flavours.
Allergens:
Contains sulphites.
Disclaimer:
The Colheita Ports usually comes with a wooden or a cardboard outer box. If so, we will include the outer box and pack it in a way to avoid any type of breakage during transport. However, we cannot be held responsible for damage to the outer box, as only the product as shown in the images is insured. If you have any specific instructions or questions about the box, please contact our customer service team and we will do our best to fulfill your request.
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