Not just a bottle

Anyone can send a bottle of wine. What makes this different from a trip to the wine shop is what comes with it: chocolate worth eating slowly and Corsican biscuits made under PDO. Everything here is something we import ourselves, chosen to suit the wine rather than picked off a list. An everyday bottle, chosen because it drinks well rather than because it is cheap.

The wine

Quinta de Santa Eufemia Ruby Port. We buy our wine through a merchant rather than a supermarket supply chain, which is why the bottles in these gifts are grower’s wines and estate bottlings rather than own-label. If you want a different bottle at the same price, tell us when you order and we will swap it.

Who makes it

Charles Antona work in Corsica, under PDO, from fruit grown on the island. You can read how the protected designations work at the European Commission.

Packing and delivery

We pack this in a medium matte-black gift box with a printed ivory-cream sleeve, the bottle wrapped and braced so it travels safely. Packed by hand in Worcestershire on the day it leaves us. We deliver across mainland UK and can send it straight to the recipient with a handwritten card and no prices anywhere in the parcel. Someone over eighteen has to sign for it. See the rest of the range on our port gifts page.

How to serve it

Port keeps for weeks once opened if it is a tawny, days if it is a vintage. Serve it slightly cool rather than at room temperature.