Goa Port Wine (Sweet Fortified Wine)
Goa night with Portuguese winds! Intense and sweet amber ruby wine
Description
Goa state specialty fortified wine made via methods transmitted during Portuguese rule. Adding brandy stops fermentation, featuring intense sweetness and high alcohol.
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Recipe
Ingredients
- Goa Port Wine(Fortified wine)
Instructions
- [For
- Servings/Ingredients] 120ml Goa Port Wine (Vinicola Port etc.),
- well-chilled tulip glasses (or sherry glasses), room-temp mineral water (for chaser), dark chocolate or Goan pork curry (for pairing).
- At a Goa restaurant hearing Arabian Sea waves, prepare
- small tulip glasses gathering aroma for post-meal (or pre-meal) drinks.
- Quietly pour 60ml each of room-temp (or slightly chilled ~15°C) 'Goa Port Wine' into glasses.
- Swirling glass, syrupy viscous deep ruby (or amber) liquid slides down glass walls.
- Bringing nose to glass, inhale sweet rich aromas of overripe plums, raisins, caramel, and faint cinnamon.
- Holding a sip, along with powerful >15% ABV attack, tongue is covered with sticky syrup-like sweetness.
- After eating Goa's famous sour-spicy pork dish 'Pork Vindaloo', this port wine's violent sweetness gently wraps and perfectly neutralizes the intense spice aftertaste remaining in the mouth. A blissful cup where Indian/Portuguese histories cross in the glass.
Learn more Spice, substitutes, tips
Key spices
None(Spice aroma derived from grapes and aging barrels)
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
Portuguese Port Wine (as authentic fortified wine sub)
Pairing
Pork Vindaloo、Dark chocolate、Dried fruits
Trivia
[Hardcore] Crystal of ~450 years history of Portuguese rule over Goa. The 'Port Wine' method adding brandy to increase wine storability rooted in India, becoming Goa's specialty. Cheap, high ABV, yet sweet and easy-drinking, so backpackers/youths visiting Goa love drinking it as 'sweet nectar to get drunk'.
Eating tips & etiquette
[Unique Drinking] Put just one ice cube in glass, squeeze lemon slice making 'Port on the Rocks', refreshingly concluding tropical nights!
Allergen
None