Graham's Six Grapes Reserve

The scent of red fruit, a velvety mouthfeel and a rich body that supports and enhances the flavors of your cheese board or your chocolate dessert. But also as an aperitif with meat or cheese, or processed with ice cream or in a fresh summer cocktail, a delicious port fits. It is not for nothing that port is one of the most popular drinks among connoisseurs.

Graham's Six Grapes Reserve is a(n) port from Portugal by the brand Graham's. It falls within the port group under the category Rode. It is one of the many references you can currently buy online at Drankenshop Broekmans.

The colour/type of this port is rood.

If you want to be introduced to port, a nice Ruby porto is the ideal way. Ruby immediately tells you what colour to expect in your glass: ruby red. It is a type of porto that matures only briefly in very large oak barrels, with the aim of preserving the fruity sides of the wine. So you get a ruby red, freshly fruity wine in your glass.

The Six Grapes Ruby Reserve from Graham's is an exceptional example of this style of wine. To produce this Six Grapes, Graham's winemakers use wines that have generally spent even less time in oak barrels than other Ruby portos, precisely to let the wine's fruity character shine even more.

The symbol of the six bunches of grapes on the bottle dates back to the 19th century. After each harvest, Graham's winemakers of the time marked each barrel with a number of bunches, according to the quality of the wine it contained. Six bunches meant that this was the wine of exceptional quality, which had potential to be declared Vintage. It was a sign of complexity, structure and balance. From the early 1900s, some of these wines were bottled separately under the Six Grapes label.

The current incarnation of the Six Grapes Reserve is dark red in colour with a lovely aroma of ripe plums and cherries that meets you from the glass. On the palate, the wine's complexity is immediately apparent, with a firm structure and a long, lingering finish.

It is a version of 75 cl and has an alcohol content of 20%.