Description
This delicious Tawny Port, so called due to it’s brown colour through extensive barrel ageing is produced by one of just a few Port houses – Quinta Santa Eufemia. With its golden brown colour and its ripe, fruity taste, this wine is delicious, sweet, and rich in texture, The red wine flavours are still present with the sweetness powering through. Serve with dessert or with a cheese board
Part of this port was fermented in vats of granite with traditional maceration and part produced in stainless steel vats. The grapes were harvested with a degree between 13 and 14 probable and Alcohol fermentation was stopped with the addition of brandy in order to be obtained to a degree of 19% alcohol, and a Baume 3rd.
In the first nine months, the wines remain in stainless steel vats outside in order to undergo a process of natural decantation ended which are transferred to wooden vats and later to 550-liter barrels. Are blended wines featuring an average age of 3-4 years.
It can be served as an appetizer with dried fruit and nuts and almonds. it is an excellent companion of apple pie or lemon ice cream.
