Fortified Wines

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Le Cordon Bleu Matching Wine with Food
Le Cordon Bleu Matching Wine with Food

By Le Cordon Bleu

Published 2010

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Fino sherry is the palest of all fortified wines, in spite of having been aged for several years in oak barrels. It owes its light colour to a yeast called flor, which grows on the surface of the wine in the barrel and keeps it fresh in flavour and pale in colour. Oloroso sherries are darker than fino sherries.

Port varies in colour according to the different blends and ageing processes. A vintage port that has been bottled young, will have a very rich, deep colour-almost black, with just some pink showing at the rim. As it ages in the bottle its colour will fade slowly.