Country: Portugal
Region: Douro Valley
Code: COCK060
The 2015 vintage is a declared vintage by this renowned Port house. Flavours of black plums, eucalyptus and red cherries. Well -toned and muscular.

Cockburn's

In 1815, the Scotsman Robert Cockburn and his brother John, successful wine merchants in Leith near Edinburgh, set up a branch of their firm in Porto: R & J Cockburn’s. Over the years they had many different business partners and consequently like all of the early Port companies the name frequently changed until it became known as Cockburn’s & Co: the name that survives today. Although the Cockburn family continued to run the company until well into the twentieth century, other families joined the extended family of Cockburn’s & Co during this time resulting in some of the finest winemakers and Port tasters that the trade h...

"Great vitality and purity of fruit, focused and precise. Exudes a freshness, which springs out of the glass. Aromas of fleshy, black plums and eucalyptus fragrance. Flavours of red cherries on the palate. Well-toned and muscul, full-flavoured with typical Cockburn's 'grip'" (Tasting notes from cask samples, Symington tasting room March 2017.
Try this wine with top end cheese, especially cheddar and blue veined, treacle tart and a chocolate pot with cherry syrup.
The grapes are picked and then trodden in huge 'lagares' (treading tanks) that same night. Later the wines are allowed to rest in wooden vats for no more than 18 months. We bottle them as they are: unfiltered, totally natural. And once they are in their time capsules, they slowly mature for many years. It is not unusual for one of our Vintage Ports to be in fantastic condition after 50 or more years in the bottle. (Ref Cockburn's)

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