What is Vintage Port

September 16, 2010

Vintage Port is the supreme expression of Portugal’s famous sweet wine. But Vintage Port is not the same as vintage wine, which is wine from a particular annual harvest.

Is Vintage Port really worth as much as ten times the price of Ruby Port? Yes, and here’s why. Vintage Port is made in a different way from other styles of Port and is only made in the best years. A Port vintage must be “declared.” A single producer can declare a vintage based on superior fruit in his estate vineyard that may outperform the quality of other estates. Great years are declared by all major producers the second Spring following harvest. Typically, Vintage Port accounts for around 2% of Portugal’s Port production. Vintages are declared about three times in a decade.

What Is Vintage Port?

Vintage Port is treated differently from all other styles. They are aged in casks for two and a half years, then bottled. Tawny Ports, in contrast, are aged in casks for 10—20—30 or more years before bottling. Vintage Port matures in the bottle and, while delicious upon release, should be cellared for a very long time. Vintage Port is one of the world’s longest-lived wines and rarely shows its potential before twenty or thirty years.
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Clark Wine Center was built in 2003 by Hong Kong-based Yats International Leisure Philippines to become the largest wine shop in Philippines supplying Asia’s wine lovers with fine vintage wines at attractive prices. Today, this wine shop in Clark Philippines offers over 2000 selections of fine wines from all major wine regions in the world. As a leading wine supplier in Philippines, Pampanga’s Clark Wine Center offers an incomparable breadth of vintages, wines from back vintages spanning over 50 years. Clark Wine Center is located in Pampanga Clark Freeport Zone adjacent to Angeles City, just 25 minutes from Subic and 45 minutes from Manila.

Wines from Burgundy, Bordeaux, Rhone, Loire, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Austria, Alsace, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, South Africa, Chile and Argentina etc. are well represented in this Clark Wine Shop.

http://www.ClarkWineCenter.com

Getting to this wine shop in Pampanga Angeles City Clark Freeport Zone Philippines from Manila
Getting to the Clark Wine Center wine shop from Manila is quite simple: after entering Clark Freeport from Dau and Angeles City, proceed straight along the main highway M A Roxas. Clark Wine Center is the stand-along white building on the right, at the corner A Bonifacio Ave. From the Clark International Airport DMIA, ask the taxi to drive towards the entrance of Clark going to Angeles City. From Mimosa, just proceed towards the exit of Clark and this wine shop is on the opposite side of the main road M A Roxas.

For inquires and reservations, contact us here

Clark Wine Center
Bldg 6460 Clark Observatory Building
Manuel A. Roxas Highway corner A Bonifacio Ave,
Angeles Clark Freeport Zone, Pampanga 2023
0922-870-5173 0917-826-8790 (ask for Ana Fe)

Wine@Yats-International.com

YATS Wine Cellars
Manila Sales Office
3003C East Tower, Phil Stock Exchange Center,
Exchange Rd Ortigas Metro Manila, Philippines 1605
(632) 637-5019 0917-520-4393 ask for Rea or Chay

Best place to buy wine in Clark Pampanga outside Manila near Subic and Angeles City Philippines is Clark Wine Center.