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Matt Connor, regular host of the Refectory's Spirits Tasting Series, invites you to join him for a unique new tasting experience revolving around Port Wine. On May 22nd, Matt's insightful dialogue will take you through the second of the series, Vintage Porto, where he will offer up five examples of Vintage Port Wine.
Tuesday May 22th, 2012
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6:00 pm $38 per person plus tax
prepaid reservations required
Six Ports, light horsd'ourves
"Port wine (also known as Vinho do Porto, Porto, and often simply port) is a Portuguese fortified wine produced exclusively in the Douro Valley in the northern provinces of Portugal. It is typically a sweet, red wine, often served as a dessert wine, and comes in dry, semi-dry, and white varieties. Port is produced from grapes grown and processed in the demarcated Douro region. The wine produced is then fortified by the addition of a neutral grape spirit known as aguardente in order to stop the fermentation, leaving residual sugar in the wine, and to boost the alcohol content. The fortification spirit is sometimes referred to as brandy but it bears little resemblance to commercial brandies"....Matt Connor
The Ports
White Porto
1992 Fonseca
1995 Quinta do Vesuvio
2003 Dows
Vintage Colheita
2007 Quinto do Vesuvio
"Established in 1756, the port wine producing Douro region is the third oldest protected wine region in the world after the Tokaj-Hegyalja region in Hungary, established in 1730, and Chianti, in 1716. Port became very popular in England after the Methuen Treaty of 1703, when merchants were permitted to import it at a low duty, while war with France deprived English wine drinkers of French wine. The long trip to England often resulted in spoiled wine; the fortification of the wine was introduced to improve the shipping and shelf-life of the wine for its journey.
The continued English involvement in the port trade can be seen in the names of many port shippers: Cockburn, Croft, Dow, Gould, Graham, Osborne, Offley, Sandeman, Taylor and Warre being amongst the best known. Shippers of Dutch and German origin are also prominent, such as Niepoort and Burmester"...Matt Connor
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