TASTING NOTES:

The Bardessono Vineyards Port is made from Petite Sirah and fortified with brandy during fermentation. This addition stops fermentation allowing residual sugar to remain in the wine. 

Vintage Port: The pinnacle of Port production, Vintage Port is the wine of a single year blended from the best vineyards. It’s bottled at about two years of age, before the wine has much chance to shed its tough tannins. It therefore requires an enormous amount of bottle aging to accomplish the development that didn’t occur in wood. Vintage Port is usually not mature (ready to drink) until about 20 years after the vintage.

Because it’s very rich and very tannic, this wine throws a heavy sediment and must be decanted, preferably several hours before drinking (it needs the aeration). Vintage Port can live 70 or more years in top vintages.