It's port season, and Northwest offers many worthy ones 'Tis the season for port wines, and thankfully the Pacific Northwest has a plethora of these babies. The holidays would not be the holidays around my house without a bottle or two of port. It's the perfect drink for a wintry night by the fireplace or to complement a rich chocolate dessert after a fine meal.
Port wines are sweet, alcoholic and satisfying.
They also are a good wine for moderation because a single glass is often all one needs to enjoy a port. Wine Press Northwest magazine recently managed to find 27 Pacific Northwest ports for a comparison tasting. As far as we know, this is the largest assemblage of Pacific Northwest ports ever put together in a single tasting. Port wine is a sweet, most often dark red wine with flavors of chocolate, black cherries, licorice, prunes and the consistency of cough syrup. Port is made by adding brandy, generally made from grapes, to the fermenting wine.