Just in time for the 2025 Christmas season Susy Atkins hosted a Port and Fortified tasting live online on the 10th December at 18:30pm.
Fine port is popular, especially at Christmas, but many don’t know how wonderfully diverse it can be. If you missed this unique opportunity to taste through some deliciously different fortified wine styles, learn how best to serve port or to match it with festive treats you can still catch wine expert Susy and a host of top port makers direct from Portugal’s Douro region on our YouTube channel @Wine-Alive.
In this 90 minute tasting Susy talked and tasted through a selection of six ports and she even snuck in a very special Spanish sherry to further fortify the event:
Wines tasted and discussed were:
Gonzalez Byass Viña AB Amontillado
RRP: £18.94
Stockists: Majestic, Sanham Wine, Tanners, Soho Wine Supply, Cambridge Wine Merchants, Oxford Wine Company, Flagship Wines
Kopke White Colheita 2010
RRP: £44
Stockists: Waitrose
Quinta do Noval LBV 2018
RRP: £26
Stockists: Ocado, Master of Malt, Waitrose, Bon Coeur
Taylor’s Sentinels 2023 Vintage Port
RRP: £44
Stockists: Woodwinters
Taylor’s 10 Year Old Tawny Port
RRP: £30
Stockists: Waitrose, Laithwaites
Graham’s 20 Year Old Port
RRP: £40 – £48
Stockists: Master of Malt, Waitrose
Joining Susy live from Portugal and Jerez to explain more about the wines were Silivia Flores and Ana Carvalho of Gonzalez Byass, Carla Tiago of the Kopke Group, Robert Bower from Taylor’s and Henry Bennett of Graham’s .
