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  • Country ranking ?

    43
  • Producer ranking ?

    2
  • Decanting time

    2h
  • When to drink

    Now

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The Story

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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From the old Cockburn cellar. This had the original cork on it. Dilemma of when to open it. It was very stinky indeed when it was opened three hours earlier. It has cleaned itself up. The last bottle! The last year in the Douro that the port trade flourished pre-phylloxera and the last year before the railway was built up the Douro. Ernest Cockburn said this may have been the finest vintage.
Bright reddish tawny. A definitely old wine. But lively and vigorous and rich. Long and spicy with a bit of richness and digestive biscuit flavours. So rich and lively! Fresh and a streak of green and fresh floral notes. Great life. Magnificent.

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