A DECADE OF AGEING IN 100-YEAR OLD OAK PORT BARRELS CAN DO REMARKABLE THINGS TO A WINE.

Cockburn’s 10 Years Old Tawny Port is what you savour when you really want something special. It is made from the highest quality grapes. We only select those that we know are going to stand the test of time.

TASTING NOTES

The result is that the 10 Years Old is silky smooth, delicately fruity with a background of complex caramel, vanilla, honey and wood-aged flavours.

AGEING

There are thousands of oak barrels in our Lodge filled with Port gradually mellowing. The great complexity and balance of this wine comes from skilfully blending a number of different wines, all of a different age. By adding some much younger wines we give our 10 Year Old that little extra vigour while some much older wines give it great profundity.

HOW TO SERVE

Best enjoyed surrounded by friends and great conversation. With dessert, after a meal, before a meal, or any time in between. You don’t need to decant it, it’s ready and raring to go. The 10 Years Old will go on and on, staying fresh for up to 8 weeks, if you can resist it for that long. We recommend that you serve it chilled, straight from the fridge or ice bucket.

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Cockburn's

In 1815, the Scotsman Robert Cockburn and his brother John, already successful wine merchants in Leith near Edinburgh, set up a branch of their firm in Porto: R & J Cockburn’s. They had many business partners through the years. And like all of the early Port companies the name changed. Eventually coming to be known as Cockburn’s & Co: the name that survives today.

The Cockburn family continued to run the company until well into the twentieth century. Other families though joined the extended family of Cockburn’s & Co during this time. The Wauchopes, the Smithes, the Teages and the Cobbs were amongst them. The Cockburn’s & Co family thus gradually swelled to include some of the finest winemakers and Port tasters that the trade has ever known.

Together, the Cockburn’s & Co family built themselves a remarkable reputation for fine Vintage Port. The records at the London auction houses show that in the early twentieth century, Cockburn’s Vintage Ports commanded the highest prices of any Port house.

Tawny ports are wines usually made from red grapes that are aged in wooden barrels exposing them to gradual oxidation and evaporation. As a result of this oxidation, they mellow to a golden-brown colour. The exposure to oxygen imparts "nutty" flavours to the wine, which is blended to match the house style.

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Douro Valley

The Douro Valley is by far the most important and well-known region in all of Portugal. It has the longest history of winemaking as well. The Douro is practically synonymous with Port - the fortified wine that is made in the region, though in recent years 'table wine' has become modernised and more popular.

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