Graham's - 'Six Grapes' Reserve Ruby Port

Graham's - 'Six Grapes' Reserve Ruby Port

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This can be described as a proper Vintage Port that's merely been declassified. The wine is made from grapes of the highest standard, hence the six grapes symbol and an historic marking used to designate only the best barrels. But it includes more than one vintage and is bottled fairly early, so it is richly fruited and soft in style - bringing heaps of depth and roundness without needing age in cellar. "

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Graham's

Graham’s has always been a pioneer. Graham's was one of the first Port companies to invest in its own vineyards in Portugal’s Douro Valley in 1890 and is now at the cutting edge of innovation in winemaking techniques. Today, five Symington cousins share responsibility for every aspect of the company and personally make the Graham’s wines. They too have been involved with Port and the Douro for many generations, with ancestry dating back to the mid-17th century.

 

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Douro Valley

The Douro Valley, birthplace of Port, is one of the oldest and most beautiful of the historic European wine regions.  Wine has been made there for two thousand years.

In 1756 the Douro Valley became the first classic wine region to be legally demarcated.  Its vineyards were comprehensively classified the following year, almost a century before those of Bordeaux.

Cut off from the temperate coastal area by the Marão mountains, which shield it from the rain-laden winds blowing off the Atlantic, the Douro Valley has a climate of hot dry summers and severe winters.  Its wild and mountainous landscape is dramatic in scale and until relatively recently much of the region was remote and inaccessible.

Most of the finest vineyards are planted on the steep hillsides bordering the Douro River and its tributaries, such as the Pinhão, the Távora and the Rio Torto. About two thirds of the vineyard area is planted on slopes with a gradient of over 30% and the Douro Valley is the only significant wine producing area in the world to practice hot climate hillside viticulture.