Meyer Family Cellars Port

Justin and Bonny Meyer began a long-term project to develop a unique port-style wine that would be based on richly flavored old-vine zinfandel grapes married with pot-still alembic brandy and blended into a continuing cuvee — a "solera" if you will - producing a tawny colored port. The blending of the young wine with the older cuvee is allowed to slowly develop in American oak barrels.

The Meyer Family Port wine has a rich aroma redolent of peppery zinfandel, sweet oak and the fine brandy used to arrest its fermentation. The resulting "marriage" leaves a dessert wine of some eight percent residual sugar with a comfortable alcohol by volume of eighteen percent. The exquisite balance of fruit, oak, sugar and alcohol is soft on the palate and long and round in the finish pairing well with a variety of fine desserts — especially chocolate!

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