This one's for you, Georgie...

[wondersofwine]

Okay, Tastevin.
Basically the handout divides style of port into white (dry or sweet) and tawny ports, and red ports. Of the red ports they can be (depending on Port Intsitute regulations) labeled as vintage character, late bottled vintage, ruby, or vintage port. It says a vintage port is always a red port aged in bottle if it notes "VINTAGE" on the label. I guess I confused red port with ruby. A port with a year noted (but doesn't say VINTAGE" on the label) is always a tawny port. The example they gave is PORTO ROCHA 1991 COLHEITA PORT. Often these are called Colheita or Reserve. As I had learned earlier, both red and tawny ports are made from the same grape varietals--the difference is in how they are vinified.

[This message has been edited by wondersofwine (edited 03-04-2004).]