Everything Port

Question 1

What port styles are there?

Answer 1

White port
rose port
ruby port
lbv port

tawny port
colheita port
crusted port
vintage port

Question 2

What is White port?

Answer 2

A white grape Port. Off dry with flavours of dried peach, white pepper, tangerine zest, and incense.

Question 3

What is rose port?

Answer 3

Rose style port. Strawberry, cinnamon, honey, and raspberry candy

Question 4

What is Ruby port?

Answer 4

Basic red port. Sweet black fruits, chocolate and spice. drink young

Question 5

What is LBV port?

Answer 5

Late bottled vintage port.

a ready to drink single vintage port

Question 6

What is tawny port?

Answer 6

A barrel aged port that gets better and more pricey, with age. Try a 20 year

Question 7

What is colheita?

Answer 7

a single vintage oxidative, barrel aged port

Question 8

What’s crushed port?

Answer 8

a multi vintage port designed to age . uncommon

Question 9

What is vintage port?

Answer 9

Single vintage port wines from exceptional years. drinks well in the first 5 years. then will continue to cellar from 30-50 or more years

Question 10

What does LBV or Vintage port pair well with?

Answer 10

A hunk of stilton cheese

Question 11

What is fortified wine?

Answer 11

Fortified wine is a wine to which a distilled spirit, usually brandy, has been added. In the course of some centuries, winemakers have developed many different styles of fortified wine, including port, sherry, madeira, Marsala, Commandaria wine, and the aromatised wine vermouth.

Question 12

What is brandy?

Answer 12

Brandy is a liquor produced by distilling wine. Brandy generally contains 35–60% alcohol by volume (70–120 US proof) and is typically consumed as an after-dinner digestif. Some brandies are aged in wooden casks.