Fortified & Dessert Wine

The cream of the creams

Advantages: Mellow, rich and unique in a stylish distinct bottle
Disadvantages: Perhaps more pricey than some sherries

Harveys Bristol Cream is the world’s best selling sherry. Harveys has produced fine Spanish sherry from the Jerez region of Spain since 1796. Harveys Bristol Cream stands out from other sherries in taste and quality. Harveys Bristol Cream is a blend of three sherry types — Fino, Amontillado and Oloroso, all created from the Palomino grape – that are then sweetened with Pedro Ximénez wine. Each adds a unique flavor and textural element to the final ...
...Harveys Bristol Cream sweetness is ultimately adjusted to 13.8 - 14.2% by the addition of wine created from the sun-dried Pedro Ximénez, which adds a creamy, raisiny richness. The Bristol Blue bottle was introduced in 1996 to mark Harveys 200th anniversary. Bristol, besides being an important seaport, had become one of Britain’s centers for the manufacture of fine colored glass by the 1720s. The term "Bristol Blue" arose from the fact that Bristol ...

MAFARRIMOND 23.04.2004 · Read full review
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I'll just have a little one

Advantages: Rich deep taste with a light appearance
Disadvantages: Pricey compared to many other sherries

...a hot summer afternoon. Croft original is one of the most popular sherries in england. It is a pale cream sherry producing a blend of the pale dryness of quality Fino Sherry with the added depth and body of a full cream. The colour is light and delicate. The taste is smooth and luxurious in its taste. The sherry is produced by Croft. The company was formed by John Croft in 1678 and assumed the name of Croft in 1736. They began to produce sherry ...
...currently part of the Diageo group. Like most sherrys, it orginates from Jerez region. The wine is made by drying Pedro Ximinez grapes in plastic tunnels. Palomino grapes are taken to the winery where they are pressed and fermented at 25C - 30C. This dry wine is then placed in barrels and fortified to 15.5%. The finished wine is then sweeted with the dried Pedro Ximinez grapes. The end product has a percentage alcohol value of 17.5 %. The sherry ...

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Marks and Spencer Finest Reserve Port

Advantages: Delicious, smooth on palette and great with cheese
Disadvantages: Price

...OF PORTS! I have purchased Marks and Spencers finest port several times in the last year and it is wonderful. At a cost of £7.50 for a 75cl bottle at all the Marks and Spencers it is a jolly good buy. It comes in a small wide bottomed bottle with a posh label saying Marks and Spencers Finest Reserve port. It is matured and full bodied. It is screw top sealed with a cork inner lid to keep it fresh, no cork screw to open it needed. It also comes ...
...a year of purchase. It has a very full bodied smooth sweet taste on the palette and I greatly recommend it to port lovers. This Port is readily available at all Marks and Spencers in the UK that sell wines and spirits and can even be bought online. ...

Jeser 07.08.2003 · Read full review
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Cockburns Ruby Port

Advantages: Low affordable price
Disadvantages: doesnt have the class of older ports

Cockburns Ruby Port Although i am not a big drinker, when i do drink i generally only drink port. Personally i find taylors to be a much smoother drink however Cockburns Ruby Port is extremely drinkable and being genarally £2 or £3 cheaper that Cockburns Special Reserve a nice alternative and well worth a drink and at an average cost of £8.99 for a 75cl bottle very reasonably priced. Made in Portugal, Cockburn's Ruby Port is a blend of young wines ...
...vimto". This is a great party drink that really does taste like vimto but with quite a kick! Other Ports in the Cockburns range include Special Reserve, Vintage Port, Anno (Late Bottled Vintage) and Quinta dos Canais (Single Quinta Vintage), Fine Ruby, Fine Tawny, and 10- and 20-year-old Tawnies ...

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A Beginners Guide to Marsala Wine.

Advantages: Addictive.
Disadvantages: Not enough varieties on sale.

The British are responsible for introducing to the world many things - football, cricket, whisky, the Beatles, to name just a few and we are also the agents by which this marvellous, rich and delicious wine was introduced to the rest of Europe. Marsala wine, not to be confused with indian maasala cooking, originates from a small corner of Western Sicily. As the story goes, an English sea captain was desperate to replenish his stocks of rum, needed ...
...put into the port of Marsala in Sicily, roundabout 1798. Unfortunately for him, no rum was to be found but astute locals convinced him that he should take on board casks of the local wine called Marsala. Any wine that was to undergo the rigours of long sea voyages and high temperatures was "fortified" with the addition of a little brandy and this wine that he was sold was no exception. Evidently it found favour with his crew and some was left to ...

bwanamdevu 18.03.2002 · Read full review
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