There are many who welcome springtime, especially after our soggy winter, with open arms. Yet there are those who still crave lighting the evening fire, feeling a nip in the air and sipping a warming libation to banish the chill. When a wine can warm your heart and stay fresh four weeks after opening, that wine has a special place in my repertoire. Dow’s Port, nothing to do with the chemical company, still purveys the traditional style of extendedly-aged tawny ports. In some way it seems hard to justify aging a wine for 20 years before release, but these wonderful wine purveyors, the Symington family, do just that. Their 20-year Tawny resembles what old Colonel Potter, of M.A.S.H. fame, used to say about Single malts: “Not enough o’s in smooooth!”
Dow’s 20-Year Tawny Port $65 suggested retail price