Port wine is typically richer, sweeter, heavier, and higher in alcohol content than unfortified wines. This is caused by the addition of distilled grape spirits that fortify the wine, but also halt fermentation before all the sugar is converted to alcohol, and results in a wine that is usually 19% to 20% alcohol.

However, to produce the Port Wine requires so much hard work, in the blistering summer-sun, in the cold of the winter – so much capital and time.

Port Wine is the most prestigious and international of all Portuguese wines. It's a fortified wine, produced exclusively in the Alto Douro region, the first demarcated and regulated wine region in the world, since 1756.

In contrast to fruit-forward, powerful Vintage Port, Tawny Port offers a more subtle array of flavors like caramel, peanut brittle, dried fruits (apricots, dates, raisins, prunes), nutmeg, chocolate and walnut. In contrast to Vintage Port, tawny is aged before you buy it and is not meant to be cellared further.