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Domaine Cazes, Rivesaltes, Ambre, 1997, France

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Domaine Cazes, Rivesaltes, Ambre, 1997, France

Domaine Cazes, Rivesaltes, Ambre, 1997, France

Domaine Cazes knows about desert wines and their Rivesaltes, Ambre, 1997 shows just how brilliant they are at making wine and that’s an understatement. It’s like the Bentley of the wine world. Classy in so many ways.

You get aromas of orange, citrus, chocolate with a smokie undertone and a chunk of raisin. There’s flavours of dried fruit with honey, stone fruits, citrus and a caramelised oaky note that is quite frankly amazing.

Sure at £20 a bottle it’s not cheap but it’s brilliant.

Dows, Late Bottled Vintage Port, 1997, Portugal

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Dows, Late Bottled Vintage Port, 1997, Portugal

Dows, Late Bottled Vintage Port, 1997, Portugal

A bottle of Dows, Late Bottled Vintage Port, from Portugal is probably standard in many British households at Christmas and this year we opened a 1997 bottle. I know that a late bottled vintage port is not the same as leaving a vintage port, this basically got left behind.

That said it tastes exactly what it should taste like i. It was smooth, it had some really good plum, red, black fruit flavours, nice sweetness in there and it really well with the cheese and biscuits course, so much so that the whole bottle went. And the best thing is at about £8 a bottle at the supermarkets a Dows port is good value