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Wine Details
Price:
$40.00 per bottle
Description:
Our Madera Zinfandel Port is rich, fruity and complex. Rich flavors fill the mouth without being overly sweet. Aromas of raspberry and black tea are in the forefront and lead you to flavors of dried blueberry, black cherry and maple syrup from the oak barrels. Enjoy this port by a roaring fire with a bowl of toasted nuts and a circle of friends. It’s the perfect finish to a perfect evening. Luscious cherry, cinnamon and brown sugar flavors linger from this port.
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Varietal Definition
Port:
Port wine (also known as Vinho do Porto, Oporto, Porto, and often simply Port) is typically a sweet wine, but comes as dry or semi-dry too. It is often served as a dessert wine. Under European Union guidelines, only the product from Portugal may be labeled as Port. Port is created in a unique way that captures the fruit and flavor of the ripe grapes in wines that possess extraordinary longevity. During fermentation, prior to reaching the point where all of the natural grape sugars have been converted into alcohol, high-proof grape brandy (beneficio) is added to the vats to stop the fermentation. This leaves a wine with great depth of color and a high natural sweetness. In terms of sweetness, port wine can be very sweet, sweet, semi-dry, dry or extra dry. It is the winemaker who determines just how sweet a port wine will be according to when he interrupts the fermentation.
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Zinfandel:
Zinfandel is a variety of red grape planted in over 10 percent of California wine vineyards. DNA fingerprinting revealed that it is genetically equivalent to the Croatian grape Crljenak Kaštelanski, and also the Primitivo variety traditionally grown in the 'heel' of Italy. It is typically made into a robust red wine. Its taste depends on the ripeness of the grapes from which it is made. Red berry fruits like raspberry predominate in wines from cooler areas such as the Napa Valley, whereas blackberry, anise and pepper notes are more common in wines made in warmer areas such as Sonoma County. Many Zinfandels come from head pruned ‘Old Vines’. ‘Old Vine’ is generally understood to mean a vine that is more than 50 years old and that produces less than three tons per acre. ‘Head Pruning’ is an old European style of pruning that trains the vine into the shape of a goblet. It requires no wires or other complex trellis systems. Head pruning spreads the fruit uniformly along the vine and allows light penetration.In the USA a semi-sweet Rosé (blush-style) wine called ‘White Zinfandel’ has achieved widespread popularity. In fact, this popularity has so outstripped all other forms that many fans think there is actually a grape called “White Zinfandel” (there isn’t)!
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