 mmm you can swallow oh hello hello welcome back to exotic wine travel I am your host Matthew Horkey today we're gonna talk about port wine it took me a long time to get into port but Shireen loved them from when she was a tiny little girl so pot wine and I go a long way back in fact it was what started me into a liking wine I was really young when I had my first sip of wine and it was so that was pot I think it was either a 20 year or 10 year Tony pot from Graham and my grandfather gave it to me kind of thought I think I at that point he thought that it was a bit of a joke like ha you know like little kid tasting wine but I actually loved it you know it tasted I remember very clearly I thought it tasted like chocolate cake or brownie and I actually asked for more after that and from that point onwards I like if given a choice I would always one pot over over chocolate cake or any sort of dessert so I was really pretty young I think I was like six or seven from that out I really loved the the taste and the smell of wine because it's so it's so profound it's so layered I want to show you something see if you remember this it was almost like a dream come true for me because you know I've always loved pot and that wasn't our first visit to Porto but that was like a real real extensive visit your ports really a historic wine you know one of the oldest demarcated wines in the world these strong red wines from the dirt off from Portugal they were fortified with spirits to survive the long journey up to the UK by ship and thus port wine was born when it comes down to port there are two really main styles you're gonna see more either a tawny oxidative style or a ruby style there are rosés and whites but they're they're very rare on the tawny side you're gonna see once it's a tawny or 10 20 30 40 year old tawny or even caljita the numbers are not the age they're blended to taste like if tawny was that old tawny ports see a long time in the barrel so they become oxidative kind of golden in color but nutty toffee caramel type flavors for ruby ports you can see everything from the cheapest kind of port that just says ruby up to reserve and then finally the late-bottle vintage crusted single quinta vintage and then finally the granddaddy of them all vintage port these are deep dark in color full of fruit full of tannins full of flavor alcohol mm-hmm so Neaport was kind enough to send a variety of different ports for this style of video I'm cracking them open with my Coravan model 6 which is very useful for drinking port I have a discount code in the description box I'll put you'll see that below you can get 10% off using that code the Neaport 10 year old white white port made from obviously the white grapes in the duo blended to age to feel like it's a 10 year old type of wine surprising because to me this leans towards less of the the black fruit quality and the first thing that comes out to me is actually a bit of this floral quality a bit more herbal and citrus actually such a beautiful color if you look at it you would think there's orange wine or amber macerated wine a little bit more lighter on the palette yeah it's quite interesting like I have to summarize this is more towards the floral the herbal the lighter fruit citrus even more the dried peachy apricotness kind of wine next we have the Neaport Kohita 1997 this is a tawny port but this is from a single vintage from the 1997 vintage aged in the barrel for a long long long time and then bottled uh Kohita ports are fantastic wines and they can really be some phenomenal values in the world of fine wine I love Kohita by the way because Kohita leans towards the tawny side instead of the woody side and I tend to like the tawny textile you know with more like toffee or nutty caramel sort of thing and I love Kohita because it gives me out of that plus a very good price yeah so this is coming on as like more of this burnt caramel immediately spicy really spicy a bit more of this like awe spice peppery kind of smell so the spice comes towards as like a little bit early a little bit warm a little bit spicy oh so a little bit sweet you can swallow oh wow this ampoule is really long and it's got a very nice again this um a vocal quality to it kind of reminds me right I grew up with TCM which is um traditional Chinese um medicine which I actually really enjoy it because there are lots of different herbs I got to learn about and that has that herbal like herbal soup quality on the finish I love it a little bit bitter but yet contrast with sweetness and so long really long I can still taste it so much wow beautiful wine we have the knee port crusted port they're made to be baby vintage ports a fraction of the cost they're a blend of multiple vintages uh un-fined unfiltered so they throw a little bit sediment that's why they say crusted they put the when you see the vintage on them that's the vintage they were actually bottled yep to it so ruby style now this you get the black fruit like a forest berry luscious fruit quality on the nose I think if you dig a little bit deeper on second sleep you can actually still get this very nice violet quality and I love love love love love violet and vintage and ruby port now this has tenons oh I love the tenons the tenons make me go and it's so nice it's like sucking on a lollipop because it's a little bit dry but you have very sweet at the same time wow so good really again long long and palette next we have the granddaddy of them all vintage ports are declared by the whole organization that regulates port uh so 2015 was declared a great vintage that's why you see a lot of producers come out with vintage ports these parts are aged in wood for two years then put in a bottle and they can be they can be put in a cellar for decades sometimes even centuries the vintage part is not too far from the crusted part in terms of the nose but with a lot more intensity a lot more vibrant and probably you know more nuances to it as well but no fresh away now I get this blueberry on top of this black fruit quality smells almost like typical red a wine actually from from the doro but again much more intensity I can smell this all day all night really sometimes I think I love smelling port more than I'd like to drink it oh I like the aftertaste like I don't like the act of like tasting and swallowing it I like like the before and after I love it now you can feel this tenons kind of like close with been a little bit of a punch in your mouth but again it's so balanced by sweeteners that it doesn't stay it's not the astringency is there it's firm it's doing the mouth but it doesn't sit heavy like it's firm but it's not too astringent sort of thing which is something that you don't get a lot unless you're having like great great fine red wine the garafaha knee port is the only producer to make this style of port it's kind of almost like a blend almost between a vintage a ruby and a tawny it's made initially in a vintage style and then it's transferred from oak casks into big glass balloons or dama johns 8 to 11 liters where it stays for years before it's bottled super rare super wonderful and super enjoyable so this is my first taste of garafara interesting it really it really smells like um a vintage port an old vintage port it almost feels like it's whimsical it kind of just flows very lightly across your nose oh this feels like a very nice action but this is exactly what the wine is doing to me it's just like glides across my nose wow this is so complex now this is like a mix of like pot vintage pot with with the tawny pot quality with the aj you get more of this woodsy kind of quality to it savory you know a little bit of like i would say um a bit of this barbecue meat but yet of course you have your dry great cherry cranberry pepper lots of black pepper suki salt really glides across the palette and i find that this front palette it's a lot more heavier in a good way like it's got more intensity on the front palette and truly elegant it feels a little bit leaner on the palette so the fan very structured as well the just slightly before the mid palette over here you feel a little just small parkering thing and then it just finishes beautifully tenons are resolved and then it senses really nice warm sensation down my throat i'm just dreaming right now oh wow hello thanks for watching hey you made it to the end make sure to subscribe to our youtube channel click the bell so you know when new videos are out if you like content like this check out our patreon page where you get some behind the scenes exclusive content thanks for watching cheers cheers