![]() ![]() Taylor Fladgate's Vintage Ports in particular are noted for their longevity. Although Vintage Ports can be enjoyed when young, they will improve for many decades in the cellar and are among the most long-lasting of all wines. It remains in vat for only about two years and then ages in bottle. Vintage Port represents the very best produce of a single outstanding year.The bottled aged family of Ports is made up mainly of Vintage Port although it also includes a small category called Crusted Port. Taylor Fladgate Chip Dry, the first dry white Port first launched in 1934, is one of the best known white Ports. White Ports, made from classic white Port grapes, which are usually aged for two or three years in large vats and are available in sweeter or drier styles.Taylor Fladgate has one of the largest reserves of aged tawny port, maturing in its lodges in Vila Nova de Gaia, and offers the full range of ages. These include the sumptuous 10, 20, 30 and 40 year old tawny Ports whose delicious nuttiness and aromas of butterscotch and fine oak wood intensify the longer they spend in wood. Rich and mellow tawny ports which age for longer periods in oak casks.Although offering different degrees of complexity and sophistication, these wine share a deep red youthful colour and intense fruity flavours reminiscent of cherry, blackberry and blackcurrant. ![]() These include Ruby Ports, usually aged in vat for two or three years, Reserve Ports which are generally of higher quality and age for slightly longer and Late Bottled Vintage Ports which remain in vat for between four and six years.
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