Warre’s 2020 Vintage Port

Warre’s Vintage Port is the perfect perfect gift for any new parent in 2020, to be opened went the port and baby are mature enough!

Robert Parker says 93 points

The 2020 Vintage Port Vinhas Velhas is a commemorative year of the 350th anniversary of Warre’s. It is a field blend aged for 18 months in old oak vats. It comes in with 113 grams of residual sugar. Aromatic and tight, this is a typically elegant Warre’s, a bottling that always seems to show mid-palate finesse. With a couple of hours of decanting, it showed more nuanced fruit too, but this initially finished with a little harshness. The alcohol is currently beaten down by the fruit, but I’d like to see it develop a bit as it holds its balance. It’s fair to note, as Charles Symington did, that it was only in bottle a few weeks. A decanted version showed far better, a very good and promising sign. This has upside potential in the cellar. There were just 2,400 bottles produced.

Drink 2029 – 2070

Mark Squires, the Wine Advocate, August 2022.

One of the best pairings with Vintage Port is cream cheese, blue cheese and cured cheese but it can also be enjoyed alongside many desserts, or simply on its own.

Comes in a presentation Wooden box.

STORAGE & SERVING Store the bottle lying down. Stand the bottle upright for a short while before you decant (20 to 30 minutes at most). Pull the cork slowly and steadily and leave the bottle for a few minutes. Clean the neck of the bottle. Pour the wine into a clean and rinsed decanter. Once you have started pouring do not stop until you see the very first traces of sediment begin to appear out of the bottle. You may prefer to use a decanting funnel. One of the great strengths of Vintage Port is that it gives equal pleasure enjoyed young and after several decades in bottle.