Croft Reserve Ruby and Reserve Tawny Porto Bundle
$45 USD
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Please allow extra time for this limited-quantity wine to be hand-picked and packed from our secure, temperature-controlled cellar.
This is your opportunity to compare, contrast, and enjoy the two major types of Port — Ruby and Tawny.
These two wines are similar in their sweetness level, an ideal drink for after dinner, with desserts, or on their own as celebratory treat.
Croft is renowned for its Vintage Ports as well as for its range of wood aged reserves and tawnies, made using time-honored styles refined by skill and experience passed down through the generations.
Croft Reserve Ruby Porto
The fruit for Croft Reserve Ruby is sourced in the traditional way, from the highest quality individual growers in the Douro Valley, where the varying altitude and aspect of the vineyards creates the potential for a complex wine of great character. In the winery, the newly developed, robotic “Port Toes” technology for treading allows the winery to maximize the quality of the fruit by imitating the traditional action of human feet and avoiding damage to the bitter grape seeds. Fermentation is halted by the addition of grape spirits before all the residual sugar has been fermented, creating a sweet, fortified wine. This vintage character Porto is blended from wines aged for three to four years in neutral oak barrels to achieve greater complexity than in younger wines.
GRAPES: Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinta Barroca, Tinta Roriz, Tinto Cão, Tinta Amarela
APPELLATION: Douro
ACIDITY: 3.94 g/l
ABV: 20%
AGING: 3 – 4 years in neutral oak
A powerful, rich blackcurrant bouquet with subtle hints of cedar and spice. In the mouth black, woodland fruit and chocolate flavors dominate. The wine has good weight and structure with a fine finish.
Can be enjoyed on its own after a meal, or paired with fruitbased desserts or a rich cheese plate. Made to be enjoyed immediately
croft reserve tawny porto
Croft Reserve Tawny Porto is an exciting new concept in Port Wine, combining the rich character of an aged tawny with ready-to-drink smoothness and spice. Reserve Tawny Porto is sourced in the traditional way: from the highest-quality individual growers in the Douro Valley, where the varying altitude and aspect of the vineyards creates the potential for a complex wine of great character. Drawn from a reserve of fine wood ports which have been aged an average of seven years in seasoned oak casks, the individual wines are then blended to guarantee consistency and quality. The result is a complex yet accessible tawny port that is perfect with dessert but that can be enjoyed at any time.
GRAPES: Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinta Barroca, Tinta Roriz, Tinto Cão, Tinta Amarela
APPELLATION: Douro
ACIDITY: 3.4 g/l
ABV: 19.9%
Light brick red, with an amber hue. On the nose, rich red fruit, notes of caramel, raisins, and cloves. On the palate, cardamom, spice, butterscotch and elegant redcurrant, interwoven with attractive nutty aromas. Smooth and round on the palate, full of luscious strawberry jam flavors with an elegant finish.
Dried fruit, pecans, walnuts, figs, roasted almonds, desserts made with nuts (pecan pie), coffee or caramel, crème brûlée.
