Graham's Late Bottled Vintage 2019
€ 20.00
With floral aromas and ripe black fruit flavours, the 2017 LBV has a perfect balance between complexity and elegance. The wine has been filtered of its natural sediment before bottling (unlike Vintage Port), meaning there is no need to decant before serving. Displaying the house style of concentrated fruit with added spiciness, but intended to be approachable at a younger age than it's vintage counterpart.
Food-Pairing
The versatility has no limits. This LBV is delicious with chocolate desserts, especially when dark and bitter chocolate is used, foie gras, sublime with cheeses like Roquefort & Gorgonzola as well as Portuguese cheeses. Superb with cheesecake and main courses with fillet mignon (beef) or a veal dish with bearnaise sauce
Grapes: Tinta Barocca, Touriga Francesa, Touriga Nacional
Vintage Port and LBV both present a selection of very fine full bodied ruby ports from a single year. The fundamental difference between the two styles lies in the way each is matured. Vintage Port is kept in wood for only twenty months or so before being transferred to the bottle where it will continue to age. Late Bottled Vintage, as the name suggests, is bottled later, remaining in wood between four and six years. During this relatively long period of wood ageing, an LBV matures and settles down - it is ready to drink when bottled, does not need to be decanted and can be served by the glass for several weeks after the cork is drawn.
Alcoholcontent
20%
Store & Serve
keep upright at a constant temperature of 12 ° C. After opening, maximum 1 month shelf life. Drink until 2030
Serve at 18 °C.
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