English tasting term
How to pronounce Vintage Port
Vintage Port is pronounced VIN-tij PORT. The main stress falls on PORT.
VIN-tij PORT
What is Vintage Port?
The pinnacle of Port wine, declared only in exceptional years and produced from the finest grapes of a single harvest. Vintage Port is aged for two to three years in barrel before bottling, then requires decades of bottle aging to reach its full potential of concentrated fruit, complex spice, and silky tannins.
Tips for saying it
Often heard as VIN-titch PORT.
Keep the g in vintage voiced like the j in jam, even at the end of the word: VIN-tij PORT.
Often heard as VIN-tayj PORT.
The unstressed age in vintage sounds like ij, not like the age in page: VIN-tij PORT.
Often heard as FIN-tij PORT.
The English v is voiced as in very, not an f as in German Vater: VIN-tij PORT.
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