This is a quality port that will delight any port enthusiast with excellent complexity, balance and drinking pleasure.
When producing the aged port wines, Kopke draws on the house’s century-long experience with barrel-aged port wines, where they belong to a small, exclusive elite. Colheita is – in contrast to the blended port wines – a tawny from one and the same vintage, i.e. a ‘vintage tawny’.
Kopke have a complex and acid-fresh aroma profile that makes them pleasant to drink over time.
For a colheita, it requires at least 7 years of aging in wooden casks before release. This Colheita 2003 is barrel-aged for 20 years before bottling; a period of time that has left its mark on the wine to that extent.
Prunes, raisins, varnish, caramel, walnuts, a little smoke and orange peel are matched by a golden acidity, so that the whole appears with the right weight. The aftertaste has exemplary length.
Enjoy this tawny as a cozy wine or, for example, with crêpes suzette, caramel rim, nut tarts, etc. – and then it is brilliant for Christmas baking when the season is right for it.
Served at 13-15° in a spacious wine glass.
96 points International Wine Challenge
“Gorgeous brooding butterscotch notes, leading to a lovely rich and unctuous palate. Silky, intense and very youthful!”
