All you need to know about fortified wine.

All you need to know about Fortified wine…↓

FORTIFIED WINE-  Fortified Wine is like regular grapes wine which have been given an alcohol boost with adding brandy during fermentation or after fermentation. The alcohol content of these wine is 15-21  percent. Some popular fortified wines are…

1.   Port Wine- 

     This dedicate and Cheerfull wine is the worlds greatest fortified wine by Portugal. They have created this wine at the beginning of the eighteenth century in the Duoro Valley in Portugal. Usually, this wine served after mill as a digestive. There are the different type of port__

(a) Ruby port-

This wine matures in the shortest time in cask(wine-filled barrel) (6 months or 1 year), And it comes with deep ruby color.

(B) Tawny Port-

This wine used to keep longer in cask (2 years or more). These wine are less sweet and lighter than ruby. It comes with brownies color.

(c) Crusted port-

Crusted port is a blended or high-quality wine usually from a different vintage, and its kept for several years in cask and for more in the bottles.  It is a well-balanced wine.

(d) White port-

This wine is made from White grapes and it made same like tawny port.

(e) Late bottled port-

This wine is kept longer in cask (10-30 years). This is a vintage port wine when the maker finds the grapes in a better position In the particular year.

2.  Sherry-

It is a blended fortified wine from the town of Jerez in  Spain. There are two categories of sherry: FINO and OLOROSA.

        Both are dry wine but they converted to medium or sweet wine by blending. For coloring secondary wine can be used. This wine served before a meal as an aperitif.

 

3.  Medeira-

This wine is executed from the soil and climate of the island of Madeira, but mainly from the cooking process. The wine is put into a hot room and heated to a temperature of 90-140°F for a few months. It can serve as an aperitif, Soup wine, dessert wine, or an after-dinner wine. The most special feature of Madeira is its curious smoky after taste.

4.  Marsala-

This wine is the main dessert wine in Italy, produced in Sicily. This wine is dark and strong flavor wine with scorched (Burnt) taste like Madeira.

 

Without these four there is two more type but they are not so popular...

5. Malaga-

It can take as a dessert wine. It has the flavor of raisins.

6. Tarragona-

It is a thick deeply colored sweet wine from Spain. 

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