Churchill's - "Reserve" Ruby Port (Pre-arrival) (750ml)

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Producer	Churchill's
Country	Portugal
Region	Porto
Varietal	Touriga Nacional,  Touriga Franca,  Tinta Roriz,  Tinto Cao,  Tinta Barroca
Sku	5603541751018
Size	750ml

After the Graham’s family sold their eponymous port house in the 1970s, youngest son Johnny Graham and his wife Caroline Churchill (of Sir Winston’s line) founded a new, quality-focused house under her name. Unusually, all Churchill’s ports are made from Grade-A grapes that are handpicked, hand sorted, and foot trod in the ancient granite lagares (treading tanks) at Quinta da Gricha in the Douro Valley. This allows for an extended period of fermentation to limit the amount of brandy required in fortification and leading to a drier, less boozy style of port. The young ports making up this Reserve bottling spend their first winter in the Douro and are then transported in the early spring to the coastal ageing lodges in Vila Nova de Gaia (Porto). Here they mature in seasoned oak vats for a period of 3 years before bottling. During this time, they are carefully blended, racked and refreshed each year to ensure that they reach the bottle in perfect condition. Before bottling they are cold treated and lightly filtered to guarantee a level of color and tartrate stability during their first two years in bottle. This port is ready to drink without the need to decant, and shows notes of fresh blueberries, hints of eucalyptus, and citrus.