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Barao de Vilar 40 year old Tawny Port (50cl)

£64.75

  • Type:

    Fortified

  • Grape:

    Port Blend

  • Country:

    Portugal

  • Region:

    Douro

  • Vegan:

    No

  • Organic:

    No

  • ABV:

    20%

  • Bottle Size:

    50cl

Description

Sublime is a wine dominated by sweet raisins, dried apricots, caramel wrapped in a candied orange peel. It is a delicious, having enormous concentration, dense and still with great notes of matured fruits. It has a fantastic elegance and a very well integrated acidity. A top quality Tawny

  • Production Notes
  • Producer
  • Delivery Information

Tawny Ports are aged in casks rather than large tanks or bottles like their Ruby counterparts. This makes them lighter (in both body and colour) and silkier in style. There are two major types of Tawny: a blend of several recent vintages with no specific statement of age – known as basic Tawny Port – and older-aged Tawnies such as this one, marked as 10, 20, 30 or 40 years old.

Barao de Vilar is run by arguably the most famous name in the Port world The Van Zellers. The known origins of the Van Zeller family refer back to the 13th Century, to the Flemish cities of Mechelen and Nijmegen, where they held several properties, namely, in the village of de Zellaer. During the 17th Century, in the rouse of the religious wars that ravaged the northern and central Europe at that time, the van Zellers migrated to Spain and Portugal, countries where they came to settle.

Their connection to the wine business dates back from the beginning of the 17th Century, according to the wine records Livros da Imposicao (1620-1640) that refer to the trader Jorge Fernandes and his son-in-law Francisco da Silva Moura, ancestors of the Portuguese legacy of the family, as the biggest wine traders registered at that time. These ancestors of the van Zeller family are the first known members of an uninterrupted series of 14 consecutive generations devoted, to present days, to Port and Douro wine trade, an unprecedented fact in any other Portuguese family "dynasty” involved in the wine business.

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Colin D
probably the best port in the world

in honesty i know nothing about port, i just wanted to get a bottle to impress my elderly father in law, who insisted we have port after dinner (and knows everything about everything). well it worked a treat - this was a good wine shop recommendation in person to me - everyone who tried it loved it, the bottle was finished - two more ordered - thank you - it's an awesome port that went down well with everyone! I'd like to keep it a secret ......