Cocktails with White port
White port is a fortified wine from white grapes, from Portugal’s Douro Valley.
ABV18%
Substitutes for White port
Fortified and lightly sweet on a white base, so any pale fortified wine of similar sugar sits close. It is drier than most people expect, and a sweet white wine in its place leaves the drink flabby.
On the label
- “white port”
- Made from white grapes and aged in wood, but usually briefly, so it stays pale. Sweetness varies widely between houses — the label word to look for is “dry” or “extra dry”, not the color.
Often confused with
A pale fortified wine of the same dryness and strength, saline and without the grape sweetness, and the drink comes out drier and asks for syrup.
It matches the sweetness and not the strength — 12% against 18%. The drink goes flabby and the measure has to grow.
