Port - Tawny Wines

Appearance: Brick red with amber tones. Nose: Rich rancio characters. Palate: Sweet to start off with, and then dries off beautifully to a clean, persistent finish. Alcohol: 18.5%

Appearance: A bright red tawny colour with vibrant garnet hues. Nose: Rich rancio aromas mellowed with smooth vanilla oak overtones. Palate: Soft, smooth palate with tight acid structure and lingering sweetness. Cellaring: This wine is be...

Here is a lovely introduction to fortified tawny-style wines. Made from a blend of Grenache and Shiraz, it's quite mellow with some appealing, sweet, Christmas pudding aromas and flavours, together with some nutty complexity. It's quite balanced, ...

Traditional port varieties, mainly Touriga Nacional, Touriga Francesa, Tinta Barroca and Tinto Roriz. Our Tawny Port exhibits a nuttiness and a complexity not often found in these types of tawnies. Compared with the Ruby, the Tawny is much pale...

Here's a nice starter for people new to port-style wines that won't have you raiding your piggy bank. This tawny fortified has been made by Sevenhill for 150-years, so they know what they are doing. Lots of spicy dried fruits rise out of the glass...

We start stepping into slightly more serious port-style territory here with this tawny from Stanton and Killeen. It's an vivid little number showing lots of toffee and nutty aromas on the nose. The palate is rich and slightly sweet with some nice ...

This wine was fermented to around 6.5 degrees baume. Brandy Spirit was added to the wine to stop fermentation and retain residual sweetness. The wine received lengthy maturation in large, old oak barrels. This process does not give the wine o...

In 1844 Christopher Rawson Penfold planted vines on the slopes of Magill to produce fortified wines. Penfolds is now proud to present a range of fortified wines that is a continuation of over 150 years of winemaking tradition and represents the...

A very bright and lively wine with flavours of orange, tangerine and cherries. Our Classic Tawny displays a hint of candy with berry sweetness.

Monty Knight's Northland port, estate-grown at Kaitaia and oak aged for seven years, is one of the finest New Zealand ports on the market Amber-green, it is raisiny and smooth, with a fragrance, intensity of fruit character, complexity and mellown...

Amber-green, this 25-year-old West Auckland port is very characterful, with loads of nutty, sweet, raisiny flavour, but its sightly fiery spirit robs it of a mellow finish.

Corbans' classy port is based principally on Cabernet Sauvignon, harvested in 1989 in Gisborne and matured for seven years hi old French and American oak casks. Other, old and young material was added to the blend before bottling"to add complexity...

This deliciously mellow tawny is based on Waikato and Hawke's Bay fruit, principally Cabernet Sauvignon, and oak-aged for an average of eight years. With its perfumed "rancio" complexity and raisiny, creamy-smooth palate, it is one of the better N...

Amber-brown in hue, this smooth tawny is a blend of wines averaging 10 years old -originally Pinotage and Pinot Noir, more recently Cabernet Sauvignon. Rich, raisiny and nutty, it offers fine value for money.

At an average of 18 years of age, Morris Grand is only just legal, but this is ample time to build great complexity and intensity. Secondary red fruits have taken on bitter walnut notes, while subtle sweetness is offset by taut acidity on a very l...

Ignore the hoi polloi, finishing a meal with port never went out of fashion in glam circles, so get on board. I discovered Ramos Pinto at the end of a long meal in Champagne. Forget the sweet imitations, this is real port, honed and toned by decad...

This tawny port has been aged for 7-years after being selected from six barrels - hence the name. It shows lots of mince pie aromas on the nose that will have you thinking about open fires and reindeer emblazened jumpers. The palate is medium to f...

In case you miss the vintage on the neck label, the main label says '21 years old'. Light tawny, tending to light green on the rim; an immensely rich tawny style quite different from the tawny ports of Portugal; the strong rancio character serves ...