By Denise Medrano, http://winesleuth.wordpress.com/
Very Old Stuff
After a huge Christmas feast you’d think I’d have no room for dessert and you’d be right. BUT I did have room for liquid dessert, namely a glass or 3 of Andresen 40 year old Tawny Port. Andresen is one of the few family owned port houses remaining. Andresen was originally founded in 1845 …
Port is almost as English as it is Portuguese. Its sweet, strong style was created when we fell out with the French in 1693 and lost our easy access to barrel loads of cheap claret. So we started importing Portuguese wine only to find it too often spoiled on its way from Porto to the tables of the great and the good in London. The solution was to add brandy to make it stronger and …
