Cocktails with Pink port
Pink port is Port made the way a rosé wine is: a few hours of skin contact with red grapes for the color, then fortification, then almost straight into the bottle.
ABV19.5%That is at the light end of the Port range.
Substitutes for Pink port
Matches the strength and sugar. Just be aware it turns the drink deep red.
It keeps the drink pale. White ports range from dry to sweet, so add a little sugar syrup if yours leans dry.
A homemade blend
In a pinch, mix 60 ml of still rosé with 20 ml of brandy and roughly 9 ml of 2:1 syrup. It lands around 17%, a little weaker than the port.
Still rosé wine
Won't work on its own. It is far lower in alcohol and sugar, leaving the drink far too light and dry.
On the label
- "pink" / "rosé"
- Croft’s brand name and the generic that followed it. Either word on a bottle means the same thing: a young, pale, fruit-led wine meant to be drunk cold and drunk soon, not kept.
