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  • Country ranking ?

    22
  • Producer ranking ?

    1
  • Decanting time

    45min
  • When to drink

    Now

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The epitome of bottle-aged Port.

Opulent wild blackberries, fragrance of violets, scents of flowers and wild herbs, rockrose, mint, hints of spice, bottled in their time capsule and left to mull over for years. The finish is long and persistent. It never really finishes, in fact, because just as it starts to, you’ll take another sip. We are not satisfied with anything less than perfection. And nor should you be. So, we only ‘declare’ a Vint...

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Arguably the greatest Cockburn vintage. Much heralded as the internal records said: ‘showing a remarkable character’. My fellow wine writer Steven Spurrier first tasted it on Christmas Eve 1954 when his grandfather first invited him downstairs to try wine with the grown-ups. ‘It was so wonderful it persuaded me to go into the wine trade,’ he told us. None of the Symingtons had tasted this famous wine before. The vines planted after phylloxera had reached maturity.
Looks so clear and tawny and with hints of pink still. Something just a little smudgy about it – sheer complexity? – but very spicy. Hugely intense with a hint of delightful rancio. Dried herbs. Round and vital and so fresh. Herbal top notes. Orange flower notes. Incredibly racy for a 104-year-old wine. Carries on and on. Fabulous length. Great balance.

  • 100p

Decanted an hour and a half before serving. Still with a very good deep bronze color and brown rim. The nose was very good, spirity. Lovely soft brown sugar aromas with great acidity. Still soft and subtle fruit, ripe banana nose. The nose didn’t evolve a lot in the glass but it had been decanted two hours earlier, so it might have already evolved in the decanter. The palate was very hot, spirity and beautiful. A metallic spirit. Very long. Still had good fruit. Very hot in the back of the mouth. Alive, more fruit and fresher than the Fonseca 1927. In the glass in evolved by becoming more syrupy. ***** There was a second bottle which was very badly ulleged but still very drinkable, more faded and brandy like.

  • 98p
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Douro, Douro
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