Kopke 50 Year Tawny Port
50 Year Tawny Port
***98 Points- Wine Advocate***
***95 Points- GOLD MEDAL- IWC 2024***
***97 Points- Best In Show- Decanter 2024***
Bottle size: 75cl
ABV: 20%
Price:
$227.69 USD
Description
Kopke 50 Year Old Tawny Port
A distinguished wine, representing the pinnacle of aged tawny ports. With five decades of aging, this port offers unparalleled depth and complexity.
Tasting Notes
This 50 Year Old Tawny Port is a rich, complex wine with a deep amber colour and golden-brown rim. Its aroma is rich and complex, with notes of dried fruits, caramel, toffee, butterscotch, roasted nuts, and subtle wood, spice, and citrus zest. The palate is smooth and velvety, with layers of dried fruits, caramel, brown sugar, nutty character, molasses, dark chocolate, and coffee. The finish is long and complex, with lingering flavors of dried fruits, caramel, nuts, and spice. The wine is perfect for special occasions and contemplative sipping. A magnificent wine with a wonderful balance of sweetness and acidity.
Serving & Food Pairing:
Tawny Ports are ready-to drink and do not require decanting. Best enjoyed slightly chilled at 12-13ºC they will work wonders if pairing with treacle tart, crème brulee or nut based desserts, like hazelnut praline.
Kopke is one of the oldest port wine houses in Portugal and is renowned for its high-quality fortified wines. Established in 1638 by Cristiano Köpke, a German diplomat, Kopke has a long history of producing exceptional port wines. Kopke is particularly known for its Colheita Ports, which are single vintage tawny ports aged in oak barrels for a minimum of seven years before bottling. These ports offer a unique expression of a single vintage and are highly prized by port wine enthusiasts. The house also produces a range of other port styles, including vintage ports, white ports, and aged tawnies. Kopke's ports are celebrated for their elegance, complexity, and longevity, making them a favorite among collectors and connoisseurs.
How to store your Tawny Port:
The bottle should be kept upright and protected from direct sunlight and heat.
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Condition
New - Excellent - please note that 50 years refers to the average age of the contents. this is a blend of multiple vintages to achieve a constant house style. This is included under the vintage as many customers like these bottles to celebrate a 50 years anniversary.
Reviews
***98 Points- Wine Advocate***
***GOLD MEDAL- IWC 2024***
Sweet gingerbread with demerara sugar and sweet cinnamon spice with cloves, marmalade and an orange pud freshness, with caramelised marzipan.
***97 Points- Best In Show- Decanter 2024***
Fifty years, as many readers will know, is a long time, but in the painstaking scholastic environment of a Port lodge those five decades serve as an education in harmony, serenity and sumptuousness. This dark walnut wine, with its scents of vanilla pod, moist cigar leaf, barley sugar sticks and quince paste, is the proof. It doesn’t have the shattering evaporative concentration of our Best In Show Amontillado – or perhaps it’s that the natural sweetness of this wine serves to coat time’s aggression with velvet. Concentrated it is, though, with lusciously layered flavours of strawberry and kirsch, of tobacco and caramel, of toasted almond and demerara sugar lent balance by light tannins and a discreet strawberry-juice acidity. No ancient wine would be easier to sip than this gracious and satisfying semi-centenarian.