What is the port?
The port is strong, usually red, fortified wine. It comes from northern Portugal, from Porto in the Douro area. While True Port is always of Portugal, in recent years the name has become a general term for this style of fortified wine. As a result, many Portuguese manufacturers have begun to distinguish their product by marking its Porto
The beverage is produced by adding grape brandy to wine because it ferments. This prevents further fermentation of wine, so it is much more alcoholic - and therefore with a higher sugar content, because less sugar is able to convert into alcohol. This practice has existed for hundreds of years, because brandy has historically added to wines from northern Portugal to help them stay during their trip to England. This type is made using very pale grapes. Some cheaper tawny ports false gentleness of age by adding white ports to younger tawny.
Wooden ports are the most common type. Ruby port is young, has aging in a barrel, but not in a bottle. They are full of energy and do not have much softness to them. Port port was in a barrel for a longer period of time - usually 10 to 40 years - so he took a lighter, "tawny" color.
and vintage port ages for two years in a barrel and then leaves in a bottle for a long time. Vintage varieties are not produced every year - about one in three years is considered good enough for the year - but they are much better than wooden ports. Vintage often has a sediment at the bottom of aging, so it should be decant before drinking. A good bottle should not be ready to be drunk for at least 10 to 20 years and can continue to age much longer. Given how long it takes age, many parents buy a good bottle when a child is born to be given a child on his 18th or 21st birthday - or any legal age of drinking can be in their country.
late bottled vintage port or lbv is meVintage ports. These wines are proven between four and six years of age after production and can be drunk after release, which requires no prolonged aging, such as vintage varieties. Relatively low qualities of those that are approaching the quality of real vintage varieties. Port Vintage Character is a special type of LBV that combines years together from the best years.
Port is a permanent popular drink around the world, especially in England and France. Some people enjoy it as an aperitif, and others prefer it as a dessert wine, but everyone who quadruple in a special place in your hearts.