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750ml
Bottle: $13.99
And if you don’t, you need to know. Our Fine Tawny has fervent fans around the world who love it for its...
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750ml
Bottle: $14.93 $15.84
Aromas of fig, dried red berries, and burnt sugar are bright and focused. The deep flavors carry the sweetness well...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $15.93 $16.76
12 bottles: $15.92
Sleek and elegant, this Barbera boasts rose, cherry, raspberry and iron flavors. Linear and bracing, with fine...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
375ml
Bottle: $15.99 $17.94
Made with wild blueberries which are small, concentrated and brimming with flavor. Blueberries are slowly fermented...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $68.40 $76.00
The 2017 Vintage Port, not quite bottled when seen but the final blend, is a field blend (with typical grapes like...
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Rapid Ship
Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $15.99
Very deep colour with compote of red berries, ripe concentration on the nose with aguardiente following onto the...
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Rapid Ship
Red
750ml
Bottle: $17.93
Plum and cherry aromas are ripe and rich with intense fruitiness. Sleek attack, quite concentrated and assertive, but...
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Rapid Ship
Red
750ml
Bottle: $30.90
12 bottles: $30.28
An outstanding example of Barbera from old vines, some dating back to 1949. Strained, deeply rooted plants produce...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
375ml
Bottle: $13.94 $15.01
Ripe and opulent plummy fruit on the nose, big and bold. Well extracted deep fruits on the palate framed by well...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $19.89 $21.62
Ripe and opulent plummy fruit on the nose, big and bold. Well extracted deep fruits on the palate framed by well...
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Rapid Ship
Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $16.94
12 bottles: $16.60
An elegant style that light-footedly dances across the tongue. Subtle layers of flavour play across the senses. Much...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $25.20 $28.00
Ruby-red color with purple hues. A suitably intense bouquet of red berries and syrupy fruit with traces of tobacco...
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $23.94
A youthful nose of sweet strawberry and damson. The supple and vibrant palate shows succulent black fruits and herbs....
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $29.61 $32.90
The 2004 White Colheita Port (Maynard's) is a blend of 35% Malvasia Fina, 35% Arinto, 20% Códega and 10% Rabigato,...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $18.64
12 bottles: $18.27
Really rich, roasted nuts on the nose with beeswax and honey. Very intense palate with a baked, rustic character....
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $32.94
12 bottles: $32.28
Well-integrated and harmonious, with a rich, creamy Christmas cake complexity on the nose and palate, building to a...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $32.40 $36.00
Aged in small 550L old oak casks in Niepoort’s cellars at Vila Nova de Gaia, this svelte 10-year-old has detail and...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $11.99
Very spicy, sporting caramel, cinnamon and tarry flavors, sweet and silky on the long finish.
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Red
750ml
Bottle: $14.33 $15.00
12 bottles: $14.25
A silky, succulent red, with pure blackberry and black cherry fruit shaded by a graphite note. On the elegant side,...
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Dessert/Fortified Wine
750ml
Bottle: $15.40 $18.34
The NV Black cuvée comes half from estate vineyards (the rest is sourced from the Cima Corgo region in the Douro...
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Barbera Mencia Port Blend In-Store or Curbside pickup

For centuries now, the beautiful red grapes of the Barbera varietal have been grown in Italy, where they are prized for their unusual high acid content and low tannins, brought about by their thin skins. The Barbera grape varietal thrives in warmer climates, and has had some success overseas in the new world, where its strongly aromatic flavors of intense hedgerow fruits make it a favorite with wineries and wine drinkers looking for a grape which offers plenty of interesting characteristics. Interestingly, the differences between young and aged wines made from this varietal are quite significant, with younger bottles holding a plethora of berry flavors, including blueberry and raspberry notes, and oak aged wines made from the Barbera grape being much loved for their ability to become extremely complex and spicy, and picking up vanilla flavors from the wood they are barreled in.

Port wine is Portugal’s great gift to the world. Coming from the ancient harbour capital city of Porto and the surrounding Douro Valley region, Port wine has been made by Portuguese vintners for at least four hundred years, although viticulture has been continually happening in the area for well over two thousand years. Port is a fortified wine, meaning it is a wine which has been bolstered by the addition of grape brandy. Originally, this was used as a method of preservation, allowing the delicate Portuguese wines to survive the journey by sea to trading partners in the UK and France. However, the wonderful taste and unique character the fortification process lends to the wine soon became massively popular, and before long, this new wine style was a hit all across Europe.


Unlike some other fortified wines, Port is made by adding brandy before the wine itself has completed its fermentation. The result of this is that plenty of the grapes’ natural sweetness is maintained in the barrel, meaning it is exceptionally smooth and rounded on the palate. Port comes in many different styles - Tawny Port wines are prized for their richness and mellow character, Reserve and Late Bottled Ports are full of fruit flavor. Vintage Port is a complex, wonderful thing - capable of standing up to some of the finest wines in the world when it comes to depth of flavor and fascinating features.