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From 90ml. #1 in 2025 Advent Calendar

Rich red, pale rim.

Beguiling nose - some prunes, and mi-cuit figs, and nuts.

Palate is very rounded- tastes like an old colheita - pleasingly congruent - nuts and prunes and figs, not much conventional berry fruit. Oak ageing prominent but not unduly so.

Very good.

There is a backstory to this wine which deserves to be recorded. This blend is unique, and can never be repeated.

When Quevedo were having their new winery and cellar built in 2021-2025, this necessitated moving barrels, tonneis and balsieros around the cellar to make space for the work to take place. Part of the process of looking after Port maturing in barrel requires the wine to be decanted off its lees, exposed to a little air, and moved to a clean barrel.

But when you have to move dozens of large wooden containers from one part of the cellar to another and back again, you get a lot of little bits of sludge which collectively fill a 100 litre isotank.

What do you do with Port made from the crusts of dozens of different colheitas and a handful of white colheitas? Well, for a start you let it settle while trying to figure out how to use it and what to blend it into.

You might also let the occasional visitor taste it and be mildly surprised when the visitors tell you it’s rather nice - and most definitely a blend which could never be repeated. A blend which would be interesting to share with friends of Quevedo who might not have the chance to visit the new winery in the near future.

And hence Mixology was bottled — a proper, old fashioned, Crusted Port made from a blend of old Port crusts allowed to come together to be a celebration of the friendships Quevedo has helped to create.

A lovely story for some jolly nice port!

That’s a cool back story. Thanks.