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Port and Stickies

Yalumba

Nothing warms a winter’s night like a glass of good port.  Click the links to purchase Cellar Notes recommendations at Kenilworth Wine & Spirits.

The Wines

 

Price key:  $=less than $20  $$= $20-40   $$$=$40-60  $$$$=above $60 VALUE = exceptional quality for the money

Quality key:  * = decent wine   ** = very good wine   *** = superb wine   ****= elite

Royal Oporto Ruby Port** $

Lush forward fruit, hint of mint, well balanced

Royal Oporto Tawny Port**1/2  $

Deeper than the ruby, classic notes of toffee, caramel

Ferreira Ruby Port***  $   EXCELLENT VALUE

One of the best, intense flavors, great concentration  

Fonseca LBV Port *** $$

Super late bottled vintage port, a ruby on steroids, delicious

Campbells Rutherglen Muscat (375 ml) *** $$

A very special dessert wine, dried fruit aromas and flavors, powerful

Yalumba Eden Valley Museum Reserve ***  $$

Classic tawny style, notes of vanilla toffee, dried cherries

All of these wines can be purchased at Kenilworth Wine and Spirits.

Click on the bottle for direct ordering and home delivery.

Al Spoler, well known to WYPR listeners as the wine-loving co-host of "Cellar Notes" has had a long-standing parallel interest in cooking as well. Al has said, the moment he started getting serious about Sunday night dinners was the same moment he started getting serious about wine. Over the years, he has benefited greatly from being a member of the Cork and Fork Society of Baltimore, a gentlemen's dining club that serves black tie meals cooked by the members themselves who are some of Baltimore's most accomplished amateur cooks.
As General Partner of Clipper City Brewing Company, L.P., Hugh J. Sisson is among Baltimore's premier authorities on craft brewing and a former manager of the state's first pub brewery, Sissons, located in Federal Hill. A fifth generation Baltimorean, Hugh has been involved in all aspects of craft brewing.