It's perfect served well chilled. Here's a great Tawny Port, which has spicy, woody complexity alongside rich, sweet cherry fruit. It's perfect served well chilled. There is very fine concentration of flavor for a 10 year old Tawny.

The 10 Year Old Tawny is a blend created using tawnies with an average of 10 years of aging. With an intense amber tawny color, the wine has sweet, elegant apricot flavors, delicate wood notes and rich, seductive aromas of mature fruit. Full-bodied and highly concentrated.

The best tawny ports are bottled with age statements — 10, 20, 30 or 40 years — indicating how long they have rested in barrels. Inexpensive tawnys are aged fewer years and sometimes are simply a blend of white and ruby ports.

1. : a port wine consisting of a blend of several vintages matured in wood so that it loses some of its original color and acquires a brownish tinge. 2. : a wine lighter in color and body than standard port and made from grapes not as rich in color.