What’s possibly a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity is now available to Bermuda port lovers.

One of the world’s oldest and rarest ports is now here, courtesy of Burrows Lightbourn Ltd.

Scion was made in 1855, one of only a few ports on the market created before Phylloxera destroyed most of the vineyards in Europe.

Burrows Lightbourn obtained a handful of the few hundred bottles that were produced.

It’s selling a 750ml bottle of the rare, cask-aged port for $3,200.

“A lot of wine aficionados want to know whether wine was better pre-Phylloxera or now,” said Ramiah Trott, general manager of Burrows Lightbourn’s Front Street store. “What makes this so special and unique is that it comes from that era and hardly any other [wines] come from there. Nothing else made it through the Phylloxera pest. It must have been put into cask just before the Phylloxera was brought over [from the United States].”

Taylor’s wine maker David Guimaraens learned of Scion’s existence in 2008.

The casks had sat in a wine lodge in Portugal since 1855. Their owners, a distinguished family from the Douro Valley, passed them down as family heirlooms until the last member died in 2009.

Taylor’s was then able to buy them.

“The big wine critic, Robert Parker, tasted it between 2008 and 2010 and scored it 100/100,” said Mr Trott said. “He loved it.”