Sweet · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Elegant
A fine twenty-year tawny with honeyed dried fruit, nuts and a long candied-citrus finish.
Cuvées
Sweet · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative
A single-harvest tawny in the Burmester house style, concentrated with dried fruit and nutty wood-aged complexity.
Sweet · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Elegant
A nutty, honeyed ten-year tawny with dried-fruit sweetness and a clean cask-aged finish.
Sweet · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Easygoing
Calem's well-loved everyday reserve tawny, nutty and lightly sweet, a staple of the Portuguese market.
Sweet · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Easygoing
An accessible everyday tawny with nutty caramel notes, good chilled or neat.
Sweet · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Elegant
A fine twenty-year tawny with honeyed dried fruit, nuts and a long spiced finish, slightly drier in the Dow's register.
Dow's Colheita
4.5
Sweet · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative
A single-harvest tawny matured for many years in cask, showing concentrated dried fruit and complex wood-aged spice from one declared year.
Sweet · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Elegant
A reserve tawny named for the legendary Dona Antonia Ferreira, with nutty caramel and dried-fruit notes.
Sweet · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Elegant
A fine, mellow twenty-year tawny with honeyed dried fruit, nuts and a long candied-citrus finish.
Sweet · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Elegant
A nutty, honeyed ten-year tawny with dried-fruit sweetness and a clean finish.
Sweet · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Elegant
A fine, complex twenty-year tawny balancing honeyed dried fruit, nuts and a long spiced finish, regularly among the top-rated of its class.
Sweet · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative
A concentrated thirty-year tawny with intense dried fruit, toffee and complex spiced wood.
Sweet · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Easygoing
An accessible reserve tawny with nutty caramel notes, made for everyday drinking chilled or neat.
Off Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative
A rare aged white Port, ten years in cask giving honeyed nutty depth and a gently oxidative, lingering finish.
Kopke Colheita
4.7
Sweet · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative
The reference Colheita: a single-harvest tawny aged for many years in cask, intensely concentrated with dried fruit, nuts and candied citrus, released with its vintage on the label.
Sweet · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative
A celebrated single-harvest tawny, Niepoort holding some of the oldest Colheita reserves in the Douro, intensely concentrated with dried fruit and candied citrus.
Sweet · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Easygoing
An accessible reserve tawny with nutty caramel notes, good chilled or neat.
Sweet · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Fruity
The signature sweet fortified Moscatel of the Favaios plateau, intensely aromatic with orange blossom, candied citrus and honey, lifted by fresh acidity.
Sweet · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Elegant
A fine twenty-year tawny with honeyed dried fruit, nuts and a long candied-citrus finish.
Sweet · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Fruity
A rare fortified Moscatel do Douro, intensely aromatic with orange blossom and candied citrus, sweet but lifted by fresh acidity.
Sweet · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Elegant
A nutty, honeyed ten-year tawny under the Royal Oporto label from Portugal's oldest wine company.
Sweet · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Elegant
A fine twenty-year tawny with honeyed dried fruit, nuts and a long candied-citrus finish.
Sweet · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Elegant
A nutty, mellow ten-year tawny with dried-fruit sweetness and a clean cask-aged finish.
Sweet · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Elegant
Taylor's signature aged tawny: a fine balance of dried-fruit concentration, mellow nuttiness and a long spiced finish, widely cited as the benchmark twenty-year style.
Sweet · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative
A deeply concentrated thirty-year tawny with intense dried fruit, toffee and a complex spiced wood character.
Sweet · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative
An intensely complex forty-year tawny, the dried fruit reduced to concentrated marmalade with layers of nut, spice and aged wood.
Sweet · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative
A rare old tawny from five generations of cask reserves (5G), intensely concentrated with dried fruit and wood-aged complexity.
Alfonso Oloroso
4.4
Dry · Full-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Bold · Savoury
Deep mahogany Oloroso aged purely under oxidative conditions. Coffee, walnuts and dried fruit with a dry, warm and lingering finish.
Dry · Full-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative
VORS Amontillado from Osborne's deepest soleras: 30-plus year average age gives extraordinary rancio concentration and complexity in the dry El Puerto Atlantic microclimate.
Amontillado VORS
4.9
Dry · Contemplative · Elegant
Antique Oloroso
4.7
Dry · Bold · Contemplative
Dry · Elegant · Contemplative
Sweet · Festive · Bold
Off Dry · Full-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Elegant · Contemplative
VORS Palo Cortado blended with a small PX component for balance. Profound complexity: orange peel, hazelnuts, beeswax and a very long bittersweet finish.
Sweet · Festive
Sweet · Festive · Bold
Dry · Contemplative · Elegant
Don Nuño Oloroso
4.5
Dry · Full-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Bold · Savoury
Rich, deep Oloroso from the Lustau Solera Reserva. Dark amber with roasted nuts, tobacco, dried fruit and a long, dry and warming finish.
Dry · Full-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Elegant · Contemplative
VOS Palo Cortado from Williams & Humbert, minimum 20 years average age. Orange bitters and hazelnuts on the nose; full-bodied bitter orange and walnut oil on the palate.
Medium Sweet · Full-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Festive · Elegant
Lustau's East India Solera evokes the historical 'Manila Galleon' practice of shipping sherry in barrels across the tropics to India, which accelerated ageing. Rich, sweet and complex with raisins, toffee and vanilla.
Sweet · Festive · Bold
Dry · Full-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Elegant · Contemplative
VORS Oloroso of extraordinary age and depth. Old leather, tobacco, dark coffee and dried orange peel with a very long dry and warming finish.
Dry · Bold · Savoury
Dry · Elegant · Contemplative
Dry · Full-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative · Elegant
VORS Amontillado of exceptional age from Williams & Humbert, minimum 30 years average age. Old beeswax, dried orange rind and tobacco on the nose; walnut oil and leather on the palate.
Dry · Bold · Contemplative
Dry · Elegant · Contemplative
Sweet · Contemplative · Bold
Dry · Full-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Elegant · Contemplative
Deep amber Palo Cortado combining the delicacy of an Amontillado nose with the full body and richness of an Oloroso. Orange peel, walnut oil and warming dry finish.
Mari Pepa Cream
4.0
Medium Sweet · Full-bodied · Low tannin · Low acidity · Easygoing · Festive
Cream sherry from the Gutiérrez Colosía riverside bodega under the Mari Pepa label; medium-sweet, caramel-toned and approachable with the Atlantic character of El Puerto.
Medium Sweet · Full-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative · Elegant
A VORS sweet Oloroso of minimum 30 years average age. Deep mahogany with complex dried fruit, orange peel, dark chocolate and a long, bittersweet finish.
Dry · Contemplative · Elegant
Sweet · Full-bodied · Low tannin · Low acidity · Contemplative
VORS PX from a solera over 30 years average age. Opaque near-black with extreme concentration: tar, treacle, dried tobacco and an extraordinary viscous finish.
Oloroso 15 Años
4.8
Dry · Bold · Contemplative
Dry · Bold · Savoury
Oloroso Urium
4.3
Dry · Bold · Savoury
Oloroso VORS
4.9
Dry · Contemplative · Bold
Dry · Contemplative · Bold
Dry · Bold · Savoury
Dry · Elegant · Contemplative
Sweet · Festive · Bold
Sweet · Festive · Bold
Sweet · Festive
Sweet · Contemplative · Bold
Dry · Full-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Elegant · Contemplative
A textbook Palo Cortado: Amontillado elegance on the nose, Oloroso depth on the palate. Orange bitters, roasted hazelnuts and a long dry bittersweet finish.
Dry · Full-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Contemplative
VORS Amontillado from a solera maintained since the bodega's founding in 1744; exceptional saline complexity from extended Sanlúcar biological phase and decades of subsequent oxidative development.
Dry · Full-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative
Century-old solera Amontillado of extreme concentration; the rancio and mineral depth reflect decades of slow oxidative transformation in old American oak.
Sweet · Festive · Elegant
Medium Sweet · Festive · Elegant
Sweet · Full-bodied · Low tannin · Low acidity · Festive · Bold
Rich, sweet Pedro Ximénez from the Lustau Solera Reserva. Dark amber to black, with concentrated raisins, toffee, dark chocolate and a long warm finish.
Dry · Contemplative · Elegant
Off Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Low acidity · Bold · Festive
Brandy de Jerez from Osborne's BC 200 solera; rich, dried-fruit and caramel character from extended American oak ageing in the Jerez solera system.
Yuste Cream
3.9
Medium Sweet · Easygoing
Sweet · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative · Festive
A traditional oxidative-style Rasteau VDN; Grenache mutage produces rich, sweet wine with fig, chocolate, and coffee complexity. Excellent with dark chocolate and blue cheese.
Sweet · Full-bodied · Low tannin · Low acidity · Contemplative · Elegant
An aged, oxidative Muscat with extraordinary complexity; dried citrus, almond, saffron, and fig from extended old-wood ageing. A Southern Rhone rarity with the complexity of a great Sauternes.
Dry · Full-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative · Elegant
Florio's Marsala Vergine Riserva is a benchmark for the driest and most complex Marsala style: fortified without added must, aged minimum 10 years in large oak in the tuff-stone cellars, developing deep rancio oxidative complexity.
Medium Sweet · Full-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Festive · Contemplative
The Targa Riserva 1840 is Florio's ambassador wine: a Marsala Superiore Riserva of medium-sweet richness, aged 5-plus years in the historic cellars, balancing caramelised dried-fruit complexity with the freshness of Grillo.
Dry · Full-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative · Savoury
Terre Arse (burnt lands - a reference to Marsala's sun-scorched landscape) is Florio's dry-style Marsala Vergine mid-tier: oxidative, nutty and almond-driven, without the full intensity of the Riserva.
Sweet · Full-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative · Funky
Sole d'Agosto (August sun) is the De Bartoli minimal-intervention take on Passito di Pantelleria: zero-sulphur Zibibbo from the Bukkuram estate, producing an almost overwhelmingly concentrated dried-fruit and honey wine with a volcanic mineral dimension absent from other Pantelleria passiti.
Dry · Full-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative · Funky
Vecchio Samperi is Marco De Bartoli's life work: un-fortified perpetuo Grillo aged in a 5-tier solera at Samperi, achieving Marsala-like depth and complexity entirely through natural oxidation, with no fortification spirits added. Sold as IGT Sicilia rather than Marsala because no spirit is added.
Dry · Full-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative · Savoury
Pellegrino's Vergine Soleras uses a traditional solera system (perpetuo) maintaining wine from multiple decades: a layered, dry Marsala of walnut-and-apricot complexity that reflects the long Pellegrino history.
Sweet · Full-bodied · Low tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative · Funky
Gabrio Bini's Serragghia is the natural passito of Pantelleria: zero-sulphur, zero additions, biodynamic Zibibbo on volcanic pumice soils producing a wine of wild, unpredictable character and pronounced mineral depth. Small allocations distributed largely through specialist natural-wine importers.
Sweet · Contemplative · Elegant
Oremus Eszencia
5.0
Sweet · Contemplative
Sweet · Contemplative
Sweet · Full-bodied · High acidity · Contemplative · Elegant
Cult Vin Santo from raisined Sangiovese (Prugnolo Gentile), 10+ years oxidative ageing in small caratelli barrels.
Sweet · Full-bodied · High acidity · Contemplative · Elegant
Capezzana's flagship Vin Santo from raisined Trebbiano and San Colombano, 8 to 10 years in caratelli.
Sweet · Full-bodied · High acidity · Contemplative · Elegant
Traditional Vin Santo del Chianti Classico from Le Fonti, raisined grapes aged 10 years in caratelli.
Sweet · Full-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Romantic · Elegant
Golden yellow with amber reflections, intense and persistent in flowers, ripe white-fleshed fruit and almond, recalling apricot, honey, orange blossom and vanilla, then warm, soft, full and structured with a base of acidity holding it in balance.
Sweet · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Fruity · Romantic
Deep garnet with violet reflections, fruity, intense and persistent in sour cherry, wild cherry and blueberry with violet, cinnamon and white pepper, sweet and harmonious but never cloying, fresh and extremely fruity with red-fruit conserve and cinnamon in the mouth.
Sweet · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Romantic · Festive
Deep ruby red turning garnet with age, an intense bouquet with hints of fruit and spice, and a smooth, sweet, full and velvety palate, from bunches selected at harvest and dried in the fruttaio.
Medium Sweet · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative · Rustic
Intense garnet, clean and complex in forest fruits and sugared almond, cherries and sour cherries in spirit, spice, vanilla, chocolate, cinnamon and liquorice, with violet, iris and wild flowers when young, and only 50 grams per litre of sugar so it stays austere.
Sweet · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Romantic · Festive
Deep, intense garnet, extremely complex in forest fruits and sugared almond, cherry and plum jam and sour cherries in spirit with light spice, vanilla, chocolate, cinnamon and liquorice, shading into violet, iris and wild meadow flowers, with a body the estate calls sweet, delicate, harmonious and soft as velvet.
Sweet · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Romantic · Festive
The estate calls Recioto the mythical father of Amarone, and added its own to the range in 2020, made from the Valpantena's hand-picked, hand-selected fruit.
Sweet · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Romantic · Contemplative
A sweet red at 120 to 140 grams per litre of residual sugar that the estate says carries a great minerality, giving it extraordinary freshness and drinkability despite the sweetness.
Sweet · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Romantic · Festive
A wine of very old Veronese tradition, from selected bunches dried at least four months with a weight loss of at least forty percent, fermented at 18 to 22 degrees and refined six months in steel.
Sweet · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Romantic · Contemplative
Intense with concentrated cherry and redcurrant, then dense ripe forest fruits with a pinch of dark chocolate: an unusual dessert red of power and elegance, harmonious and seductive, at 100 to 110 grams per litre of sugar.
Sweet · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Festive · Romantic
The traditional sweet red of the Valpolicella: impenetrable ruby, cooked cherry and fruit in spirit on the nose, and a complex, pleasing alternation of sweetness and acidity with a long finish.
Sweet · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Contemplative · Romantic
Intense red with violet reflections, an intoxicating nose of dried grapes, cherries in spirit and dried fruit closing on refined spice, and a mouth the estate calls fleshy and crunchy.
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Savoury · Bold
Ruby red, recalling cherry, tobacco, aromatic herbs and spice, and closing on freshness with balsamic and minty notes and a long persistence.
Sweet · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Contemplative · Romantic
Made only from the best grapes of the best vintages, with the drying extended to 150 days, a gentle pressing and a two-month fermentation in open tonneau before at least two years in new tonneau.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · High acidity · Contemplative · Funky
The estate's attempt to vinify Amarone in the most natural and traditional way possible: a hundred days of drying, hand destemming and crushing, indigenous-yeast fermentation in an oak truncated-cone vat with daily hand punch-downs, then five years in untoasted 700-litre oak with no filtration and no fining.
Sweet · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Romantic · Festive
Deep red, intense with floral notes of violet, iris and wild rose alongside vanilla, and full, sweet and delicate on the palate after a spontaneous fermentation stopped at the desired sugar and alcohol.
Sweet · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Contemplative · Romantic
Deep ruby, with cherry conserve, very ripe plum, small red fruits, spice, tobacco and chocolate on the nose, and a powerful, fat, sweet palate that the estate insists is never cloying, returning cherry, plum, cocoa and a light mineral note.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Bold · Contemplative
Deep ruby tending to garnet, with very clean scents of berry fruit, jam and cherries in spirit, and flavours of vanilla, spice, liquorice and bitter almonds.
Sweet · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Romantic · Fruity
An intense ruby sweet red, rich on the nose with cherry, raspberry and chocolate, soft and moderately sweet on the palate and balanced by exceptional minerality.
Sweet · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Romantic · Contemplative
Garnet red, with enveloping scents of dried grape, violet and conserve, then warm and velvety on the palate, intense and full, a refined red passito the estate calls a wine for meditation.
Sweet · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · Medium acidity · Romantic · Festive
Impenetrable dark red, with hints of sour cherry conserve, balsamic notes and chocolate, then fruity and soft on the palate with an elegant tannic grip.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative · Elegant
Intense garnet with orange reflections, an intense and elegant nose of cherry and plum in spirit with ethereal notes and a spiced finish of chocolate, cinnamon and tobacco, then a balanced, dry palate with elegant, soft tannins that the estate says never feels excessive despite the alcohol.
Sweet · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Festive · Romantic
Made only in the best vintages, the estate's sweet wine of tradition, of feast days and of special occasions, from grapes dried a minimum of 120 days.
Dry · Full-bodied · Firm tannin · Medium acidity · Contemplative · Elegant
Impenetrable garnet, intense in red fruit under spirit amalgamated with noble and persistent spice, and of notable gustatory concentration on the palate, persistent and balanced by an elegant, velvety tannin.
Sweet · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Contemplative · Romantic
Deep violet in the glass, a generous bouquet of varied spice, ripe cherry, marasca and creme de cassis over toasted walnut, floral notes and chocolate, with a soft sweet entry, real freshness and a very fine tannin that will hold it for years.
Sweet · Full-bodied · High acidity · Festive · Contemplative
San Zeno is Fasoli Gino's Recioto di Soave DOCG, made from dried organic Garganega grapes. Organic farming preserves the grape's natural concentration and flavour integrity through drying. The result is a rich, golden sweet wine of exceptional aromatic purity.
Sweet · Full-bodied · High acidity · Contemplative · Elegant
A reference wine of the Colli Euganei Fior d'Arancio DOCG (elevated to DOCG in 2010). Moscato Giallo grapes are dried (passito) on bamboo racks in the volcanic Euganean Hills; the intensely floral and orange-scented result is distinctive within Italian sweet wine.