🍷 Ruby Port

Generally the youngest - and cheapest - type of port wine. It is aged for a few years and usually has a taste of ripe red fruits and a fresh sweetness, with a touch of discreet tannin.

Ruby should be drunk while it is young and preferably chilled. Serve it with sweet desserts with chocolate or a strong blue cheese.

🍷 LBV - Late Bottled Vintage

LBV is a ruby ​​port wine from a particularly good year that has been aged in barrels for up to 6 years before being bottled. An LBV port wine is sweet and more complex than the younger ruby.

There are lots of dried fruits, especially raisins and prunes, hints of nuts and more tannins. LBV is ready to drink when it is bottled. Enjoy it chilled and drink the bottle within 2-3 weeks of opening - it tastes best that way.

When drinking LBV, cheeses like Parmesan or Stilton are an obvious accompaniment, but its sweetness also pairs perfectly with chocolate desserts.

🍷 Vintage Port

When it comes to port wine, the absolute superstar is Vintage, or vintage, port wine. Vintage is only made in the best harvest years from exquisite quality grapes.

A vintage port wine needs to be in the bottle for a long time before it releases its full flavor experience and typically tastes best 15-30 years after the harvest. Vintage port offers a full, sweet experience, full of nuanced flavors. Here you will experience blackcurrant, cherry, chocolate, coffee, figs and much more.

Ågangsport wines are unfiltered and should almost always be decanted when opened. Enjoy it chilled, preferably the same day you open the bottle.

Vintage is a great match for strong, creamy cheeses like Gorgonzola, Stilton, Roquefort or blue cheese, where the complex sweetness of the port wine brings it all together. Other good serving tips include dark chocolate, figs and walnuts.

🍷 Tawny Port Wine

Tawny port wine is aged in wooden barrels for at least 3 years, during which time it loses some of its colour pigment and becomes golden brown in colour - called Tawny in English, which also gave the port wine its name.

Tawny is not as sweet as its dark counterparts. You will still find sweetness in a tawny port, with caramelized notes, toffee and vanilla woven together with dried fruit, especially oranges, sweet figs and mocha notes.

Tawny is aged for at least 3 years, but is often aged for 10, 20 or even 40 years, indicating the average age of the wines used. Tawny should be enjoyed chilled and can be served with cheeses such as Pecorino or Manchego - and of course rice pudding, where the subtle sweetness and notes of nuts really come into their own.

The long aging process means that Tawny can last up to 4 weeks in the refrigerator after opening.

🍷 Colheita port wine

The last variety of port wine you should know is Colheita.

Colheita means harvest in Portuguese and is in reality a vintage port wine that has been aged in wooden barrels since the harvest year. Colheita is closely related to Tawny port wine, with the crucial difference that Colheita is wine from the year stated on the label, where Tawny is a blend of many wines with an average age of at least 3 years.

Colheita is often at its best when, like Vintage, it has been aged for many years. Here the notes of nuts and dried fruit will really come into their own and, like Tawny, Colheita goes really well with hard cheeses and rice dishes.