Posts Tagged ‘Port’
De Krans Cape Tawny Port NV
Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Made from the classical Portuguese Port varieties 50% Tinta Barocca, 45% Touriga Naçional and 5% Souzao. Boets uses unmatured brandy spirit for the fortification and then matures the wine for a year in oak casks. 50% of it in 500 litre barrels and the remainder in 4500 litre vats.
So you land up with a medium bodied wine, all fruit and spice and Christmas pudding flavours with a beautifully balanced sweetness.
It’s a great glass after dinner, while watching the Soccer while whittling on some biltong. Be a devil and use it as a cooler by mixing it half and half with tonic or lemonade.
I had the tonic version in Oporto made
Jacques Smit Roobernet Port
Sunday, June 6th, 2010
A unique Port from Jacques Smit Wines in Wellington. It is not oaked at all, and it is the first South African Port to be made from a grape variety called Roobernet, a 1960s local cross between Cabernet Sauvignon and Pontac.
Although it is unoaked, there are some delicious spicy hints of cloves and cracked cardamom. The fruit is all about fully ripe sappy mulberries and other red berries and blood plums. Like a liquid slice of rich fruitcake with a lovely long sweet finish.
The wine sells only at the Cellar Door for R55.00. Worth a trip out to Wellington!
Another Jacques Smit wine I really like is the Vine Valley, an
Monis Vintage Port 2006
Friday, April 30th, 2010
Having just been to Portugal where I had the pleasure of tasting a large number of fabulous ports blind for the book, Guia Popular dos Vinhos with which Neil Pendock and I are assisting Anibal Coutinho, my palate is somewhat calibrated to the part made from the classical Portuguese varieties.
It was also very clear that the Port producers in the lodges of Oporto are looking for ways to make port a more popular drink amongst the younger wine drinkers and also to make it appeal to woman.
David Guimaraens the Chief Winemaker of Taylors Fonseca Crofts led us through a tasting of the 2007 vintages of
