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Taylor Fladgate 20 Year Old Tawny Porto 750ml
Taylor Fladgate 20 Year Old Tawny Porto 750ml
PORTUGAL : DOURO : PORTO
SUSTAINABLE : Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz, Tinta Barroca, Tinto Cão, Tinta Amarela
FULL-BODIED, DRIED APRICOT, WALNUT, ORANGE PEEL, TOFFEE, NEUTRAL OAK
Tawny Port earns its name the hard way — not from blending, but from time. The wine is aged in seasoned 630-liter oak pipes in Taylor Fladgate's lodges in Vila Nova de Gaia, across the Douro from Porto. Every year, roughly 3% of each barrel's volume evaporates — the "Angels' Share" — concentrating the wine while the color fades from dark ruby to the distinctive amber-tawny hue. The 20 Year Old is a blend drawn from Taylor's extensive reserves, assembled so the weighted average age sits around twenty years.
Taylor Fladgate is one of only three Port houses to use piston-fermenter "Port Toes" technology — a mechanical replication of the old lagares foot-treading technique that extracts more aroma and flavor than conventional pump-over fermentation. The result is rich and mellow, best served slightly chilled (12–16°C), where the alcohol recedes into balance and the dried-fruit complexity opens up.
PAIRINGS :
| Crème brûlée | burnt-sugar crust and vanilla cream echo the wine's toffee and caramel register |
| Stilton blue cheese | sweet-salt contrast is one of the great Port pairings — the wine's richness meets the cheese's saline intensity |
| Walnut tart | the pastry's bitter-rich filling mirrors the wine's walnut and dried-fruit character directly |
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