Grant Burge 10 Year Old Tawny Port

Wine Advocate
"90 pts ... High-toned aromas of orange peel, raspberry, cherry, maple and toffeed apple, with subtle notes of dark chocolate, blood orange and paint thinner. Gets sweeter and more expansive with air, picking up notes of candied cherry and celery seed. Sure, it's high-toned, and I'd be scared to light a match near it, but this has the sweetness and complexity of most 30-year-old tawny ports at a steal of a price."” --10/07

Winemaker's Notes
"The Grant Burge 10 Year Old Tawny is a richly flavoured wine showing a tawny colour with tinges of red. Complex rancio characters show through on the bouquet, together with some fresh fruit characters and excellent integration of spirit. The palate is sweet and mellow but finishes quite dry and shows a harmonious balance of developed fruit characters and oak tannins."

Technical Notes
"The Tawny Material is assessed and reblended into a solera-based system, which will enable us to consistently release wines of high quality. Only a strictly limited quantity of 10 Year Old Tawny will be drawn from the solera for bottling each year, and the barrels will be topped up with selected younger wine."