Sweet wines, Port, Madeira & Cognac

Sweet Wines, Port, Madeira & Cognac

What better way to finish off a fabulous meal than with a super-sweet pudding wine. We stock a wide variety of Botrytis (Noble Rot) and other sweet styles in both red and white. Our Château de Loupiac from the area next to Sauternes is stunning quality and very good value! All our sweet listings are available in 37.5 cl half bottles as well as in full bottles if you’ve got a sweet tooth!

Portugese fortified wines from the Douro are unrivalled in terms of quality and reputation. Much imitated but never equalled, Port, so the story goes, is one of the happier accidents in wine-making history. Barrels of red wine were bolstered with brandy to protect them during export to outposts of the Empire. The resulting wine was found to be thoroughly potent, utterly delicious and likely to improve further with age. We stock a wide selection of Port through the different styles including White, Ruby, Tawny, Coleihta and Vintage.

Madeira , a small outpost of Portugal off the west coast of Africa, produces a delicious fortified wine which is, uniquely, kept heated (to temperatures of around 50ºC) for about six months. This stabilizes the wine giving it great longevity. Like many of the great developments in vinification, this was discovered by chance in the 17 th Century when it was noted that the wine actually improved after transportation on long sea journeys through hot climates. We list all the classic styles and you won’t be disappointed!

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