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Ports For The Bleak Midwinter

A glass of port/red wine
Jason Gessner via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Stoke the fire, open up a good book, and pour yourself a glass of port.

Price key:  $=less than $20  $$= $20-40   $$$=$40-60  $$$$=above $60

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

VALUE = exceptional quality for the money

 

Ferreira Ruby Porto **1/2 $  GREAT VALUE

Superb entry level Ruby Porto, think "candy apples.”

Ferreira Tawny Porto **1/2 $  GREAT VALUE

Over-delivers at the price, mellow, rich and rewarding.

Graham's 10 year old Tawny Porto ***  $$

Refined, gentlemanly, complex, comforting, superior.

Broadbent 20 year old Tawny Porto *** $$$

Very classy, mellow to the max, gently complex and inviting, wonderful.

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

Click on the links 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.