This is Livadia Red Port, a fortified Cabernet Sauvignon made for the Imperial Russian Court since 1891. First made in the Imperial Estate at Livadia, the wine is made from Cabernet Sauvignon grown at Livadia (one of the Tsar's Crimean palaces as well as wineries), Massandra and Ai-Danil. The grapes are harvested at no less than 22% sugar. After fermentation is stopped by fortification, the wine is then matured in casks for 3 years. The wine tasted at this year's Wine Fair was the 2008 vintage. Ruby red with a sweet spirity fruity nose, the wine was sweet and fruity on the palate with acid slightly tannic but still sweet backbone to support it to the finish.
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