Offley Late Bottled Vintage Port (Gift Box) 2020
£21.75
The wine
Deep, almost opaque ruby red. Intense and complex red and black fruits with undertones of white pepper and ginger. Full bodied on the palate.
Late Bottled Vintage is single-vintage port aged four to six years in cask rather than the two a Vintage gets, so it arrives ready to drink without decades of cellaring. It was invented as a solution to a practical problem: restaurants wanted vintage character by the glass without the decanting. Fermented in robotic lagares and temperature-controlled steel with vigorous punching down. Supplied in a gift box.
The producer
Offley
View all Offley winesOffley is one of the great historic Port houses, founded in 1737 and long celebrated for its rich, characterful wines from the Douro Valley. Closely tied to the legendary Baron Joseph James Forrester, it remains a benchmark name in the world of Port.
The house draws on prime vineyards in the dramatic, terraced Douro, where the traditional Port grapes ripen under an intense continental sun. Careful vinification and patient cask and bottle ageing produce Ports of depth, warmth and consistency.
The range spans the full spectrum of Port, from bright Ruby, refreshing White and Rosé styles to smooth cask-aged Tawnies at ten, twenty and thirty years, the ready-to-drink Late Bottled Vintage, a rare single-harvest Colheita and powerful declared Vintage Ports built for the cellar.
Rich, generous and steeped in history, the Ports of Offley are a wonderful introduction to the Douro's greatest wines. They bring warmth and celebration to every occasion.
