For The Love Of Port

A lone bottle bought on eBay from the Netherlands a few years ago. There is no bottling date on the label but it appears to be 20-30 years old with one of those very brittle black wax capsules that explode all over your kitchen when you try to open the bottle!

The cork was very clean on the top but disintegrated completely when I pulled on the corkscrew. The bottle might have spent a decade or two standing up? There was lots of well formed crust in the bottle so I suspect this wine was very lightly or un-filtered.

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Bright amber colour with some red in the centre. Lovely, delicate nutty nose. Very thick and smooth on entry. Intense puff candy* flavour. Sweet and sticky with some heat on the finish. Very nice wine.

Opened to share with Mum and Dad on Christmas Eve so will post more later.

* For my American friends: "puff candy" = "cinder toffee"

Er, great note Derek and I had a good chuckle picturing the hardened wax going everywhere.

But for your American friends, can you please describe "cinder-toffee"?

Roy Hersh wrote:
But for your American friends, can you please describe "cinder-toffee"?

I was trying to figure that one out too. I've never heard of cinder-toffee.

It must be one of those crazy British creations like Wallace & Grommit.