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