Quinta Do Vallado 10 Year Old Tawny

This has rich nutty, dried fruit aromas and luscious, sweet raisin, mocha chocolate, spice and medjool date flavours on the palate.

This eighteenth-century Douro wine estate is actually one of the most modern-looking in Portugal. Although the team uses the traditional panoply of indigenous grapes, its methods are bang up to date and the results are nothing short of sensational.

Unusually for wineries in the Douro, Quinta do Vallado’s priority is making table wines rather than Port (though their 10 year old Tawny is one of the best examples of its type on the market!).

Their approach has been very successful, as shown by the spicy, rich Tinto Reserva, which has walked off with a host of medals at both the International Wine Challenge and Decanter awards in recent years.