Liqueur Port Wines

Blended from shiraz and grenache, the youngest wine in the blend is 12 years old; the abundant rancio gives the wine great complexity, and a cut that prevents the palate from cloying, notwithstanding its richness. One from left field.

Pirramimma have beem making fortified wines for generations, so they have a bit of a clue about it. This 12-yo is a blend of grenache, shiraz and pedro, and is smooth, soft, lush and unctuous with about 18% alcohol to warm the cockles of your hear...

Lifted mocha bouquet with rancio nuances. Rich chocolaty/toffee palate and nice quince paste characters on the finish. ÒGreat served as an aperitif,Ó said one judge.

A regular performer in our Quaff tastings, we liked this wine again, even though (as we've found in previous years) it is a little sweeter and more caramelly than some of the other wines we've recommended.

This port was made from the Portuguese grape varieties Tinta Cao & Touriga grown in the University vineyards. The base wines were fortified with carefully selected aged brandy spirit and blended over an extended period through a traditional solero...

Medium tawny red; the bouquet has a well-balanced mix of spicy fruit and pleasantly earthy spirit; the exceptional harmonious palate shows ripples of gently spicy fruit interwoven with soft tannins, a touch of rancio lift and perfectly balanced ac...

In true Para style, this is richly fruity and sweet, yet possesses great aged character. The colour is medium amber-orange; the nose is sweet berry jam, honey, raisin and rancio. It finishes clean and leaves you wanting more. Try it with Meredith ...

A lovely tawny port, perhaps a tad leaner and more elegant than usual and with a drier, less fruity style. The colour is medium-light tawny/amber; the nose recalls walnuts and old leather, with honey, raisin and rancio nuances. Deep in aged fruit ...

It's been in wood for a century, and if you calculated the real value it would be worth much more than they're charging. It's a treacly black-brown to look at and is explosively flavoured, unctuously textured and unbelievably concentrated. We coul...

Amber hued with a little more depth of colour than the 'standard' Para, this has a lovely complex bouquet that's very refined. It smells of burnished timber, old leather chesterfields, crushed dried fruits and roasted nuts. In the mouth it's sweet...

Tasting these wines is always an extraordinary experience. This has a treacly dark, glass-staining, viscous appearance, almost like motor oil, and in bouquet and flavour it has amazing power and complexity. It's hard to fit descriptors to it, and ...

Luscious and almost creamy mouthfeel; a density and complexity well above Bin 124; raisins, nuts, honey and spice all coalesce; this is serious seduction. Progressive 21-year-old releases.

Honey, treacle consistency; impenetrable olive-brown colour; a nuclear explosion of flavour starting with Christmas pudding, molasses and chocolate, ending miraculously balanced by perfect acidity. One of the great ones.

Mmm, mmm! Shiraz blended with small amounts of low yielding Touriga and Durif.

Bottling 118. Dark mahogany tinged with green; the bouquet is complex, and both richer and sweeter than DP90 with malt, butterscotch and strong rancio characters. The palate has complex structure and great power, yet paradoxically has an almost dr...

Dark olive-brown, tinged with green, and pours like viscous oil; the bouquet leaps out of the glass, with cascades of aroma; plum pudding, toffee and the works lifted by the touch of volatility one always encounters. The tiniest sip is overwhelmin...

Well on its way to full golden-tawny colour; very intense, raisiny, nutty and spicy palate, the acidity cutting across like a beacon.

The usual honey, treacle consistency, the olive-green/brown wine staining the sides of the glass as it is swirled; offers cinnamon stick, every spice known to man, grandma s Christmas pudding and a hundred other things; the senses almost go into f...

Tawny brick red in colour. The nose displays very ripe jammy fruit characters with spicy notes and floral muscaty influences. On the palate the warm alcohol spirit is beautifully balanced with luscious sweet fruit flavours. A delicious dessert win...

It's a rather straight-forward formula here: Take 12 red wines and pack them together in a collection that showcases value, more value and even more value. In reality such a collection requires hours of tortuous tasting, involving the Cracka st...