Winery Hardys - Whiskers Blake Classic Tawny Port

Winery HardysWhiskers Blake Classic Tawny Port

3.9
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(Average of the reviews for all vintages combined and from several consumer review sources)
Tasters generally liked this wine.
The Whiskers Blake Classic Tawny Port of Winery Hardys is a natural sweet wine from the region of Australie du Sud-Est.
This wine generally goes well with beef, lamb or mature and hard cheese.

Wine flavors and olphactive analysis

Wine with oak taste

caramel, butterscotch

Wine with earth taste

honey, smoke

Wine with microbio taste

cheese

Wine with spices taste

licorice

On the nose the Whiskers Blake Classic Tawny Port of Winery Hardys in the region of Australie du Sud-Est often reveals types of flavors of butterscotch, non oak or dried fruit and sometimes also flavors of dried fruit, black fruit or red fruit.

Details and technical informations about Winery Hardys's Whiskers Blake Classic Tawny Port.

Grape varieties
Region/Great wine region
Country
Style of wine
Alcohol
18°
Allergens
Contains sulfites

Discover the grape variety: Merlot khantus

An interspecific cross between Merlot noir and Kozma 20-3 (also the same parents of Merlot khorus) obtained in 2002 by Simone Diego Castellarin and Guido Cipriani at the Institute of Applied Genomics in Udine, Italy. Merlot khantus is particularly resistant to mildew and tolerant to powdery mildew. Known in Italy ... almost unknown in France and not registered in the Official Catalogue of wine grape varieties.

Last vintages of this wine

Whiskers Blake Classic Tawny Port - 2008
In the top 100 of of Australie du Sud-Est wines
Average rating: 3.911110

The best vintages of Whiskers Blake Classic Tawny Port from Winery Hardys are 2008

Informations about the Winery Hardys

The winery offers 361 different wines.
Its wines get an average rating of 3.4.
This winery is part of the Accolade Wines.
It is in the top 3 of the best estates in the region
It is located in Australie du Sud-Est

The Winery Hardys is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 267 wines for sale in the of Australie du Sud-Est to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top wine Australie du Sud-Est
In the top 1500 of of Australia wines
In the top 650 of of Australie du Sud-Est wines
In the top 600 of natural sweet wines
In the top 35000 wines of the world

The wine region of Australie du Sud-Est

South East Australia is a geographical indication (GI) covering the entire south-eastern third of Australia. The western boundary of this area extends 2,000 kilometres (1,250 miles) across the Australian continent from the Pacific coast of Queensland to the Southern Ocean coast of South Australia. This vast wine 'super zone' effectively encompasses all the major Australian wine regions outside Western Australia. Rainforest, mountain ranges, scrubland, desert and Dry riverbeds occupy the majority of the land in the South East Australian area.

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The word of the wine: Amber

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