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| Producer | Croft |
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| Country | Portugal |
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| Varietal | Port Blend |
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| Sku | 10004323 |
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| Size | 750ml |
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A powerful, rich blackberry bouquet with subtle hints of spice and cedar. On the mouth strong black fruit and chocolate flavours dominate. The wine has good weight and structure with a fine finish.
This is a Finest Reserve Port which is a blend of ports which have been aged in wood for four to five years to produce wines of greater complexity than their younger counterparts. A port with attractive, intense fresh fruit aromas and flavours.
Croft Distinction is bottled for immediate drinking.
The NV Distinction Porto Special Reserve was aged for three to four years in used French oak. It comes in at 97 grams per liter of residual sugar. This is a June 2017 bottling, although it is not listed as such. The only one of the Croft trio that doesn't come in the distinctive fat bottle, this still has a fat lip, thus requiring a larger size bar-top cork. I rarely see this as often as the regular Croft Ruby Reserve. David Guimaraens told me the difference here is that ""Croft Reserve Ruby is a rich, fruity and youthful premium Ruby [that] is approachable. ... Croft Distinction is for Croft what Bin Nº 27 is for Fonseca, where we select special parcels of Port from each harvest to mature in large wooden vats, then blend into a rich full-bodied Port where you combine intensity of fruit and some maturity. ... As you know, older Ports like the Aged Tawnies and even the LBVs, require us to have large stocks to back up for future sales. These are very costly in every aspect, so having a premium Reserve Ruby such as Distinction and Bin Nº27 are very important for us as a business.""
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