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Jamie Goode - wine-anorak.com - May 2010
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Burmester Colheita
Burmester can trace their origins back to 1730, when Henry Burmester and John Nash founded a cereal trading company. After a move to Vila Nova de Gaia in 1750, the Burmester Port Shipping Company was born.
Today the company specialises in Port at the top-end quality level, with Colheita (vintage dated tawnies) their particular area of expertise.
Colheita
A Colheita (literally `harvest' or `crop') is an aged Tawny Port made with grapes from a single vintage. By law, Colheitas should be matured in wooden casks for at least seven years, although in practice they tend to be aged for much longer - sometimes up to 50 years. They are bottled only when the producer decides that the Port is ready to drink, and should be drunk in the following year or so. The label should carry both the vintage and the bottling date.
Colheita is a relatively rare style which is a shame as many are exceptional, combining all the sweet, dried fruit and nutty finesse of an aged Tawny with individual vintage character. They normally offer outstanding value too. In order to make the category more appealing to consumers, some shippers have replaced `Colheita' with the term `Single Harvest Reserve', with some success. The term Colheita is also used for single-vintage Madeiras.
Other Varieties
There are over 200 different grape varieties used in modern wine making (from a total of over 1000). Most lesser known blends and varieties are traditional to specific parts of the world.
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The Anglo - German family Burmester can trace their roots in port back to 1750. The firm remained family owned for the next 250 years by various branches of the Burmester family, until it's sale to Amorim group just before the millennium. They are particularly noted for their Colheitas, tawny ports of a particular vintage, and their fine aged white ports. They have large library stocks of older wines, this 1937 Colheita being bottled only in 2010 after over seventy years aging in cask. A fantastic tipple for Christmas festivities.
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