Styles of Port
White Lovely served in a tall glass with crushed ice, tonic water, a sprig of fresh mint and a twist of lemon.Ruby Simple, young and fruity best used in cocktails, mixers or for cooking.
Tawny Barrel/cask-aged ruby port. The aging causes the color to change from purple to tawny brown. Aged tawny Can be aged for 10, 20, 30 or 40 years.
Colheita Aged tawny from a single vintage.
LBV- Late Bottled Vintage From a single year, bottled four to six years after harvest. Designed to be in a vintage port style but consumed much earlier because of the late bottling process.
Single quinta Made from a single estate (quinta). Single quinta is made the same way as vintage port but comes from grapes originating from only one farm.
Crusted A blend of different years, bottled young and developing like a vintage port.
Vintage The best wine, made with the best grapes from a single harvest. Aged for only two years in wood before bottling, these wines develop slowly over a long period (20 to 60 years) and develop heavy sediments or "crusts" that should always be decanted.
