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Vintage Port 1912

Cockburn's, Douro, Portugal

Cockburn's
Douro Portugal
  • 92
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  • Country ranking ?

    204

  • Producer ranking ?

    15

  • Decanting time

    1h

  • 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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This is amazing for its youthfulness.  It is an unusually deep red for such an old wine, and is still showing a lot of life, with rich cherry aromas, plenty of spicy, peppery fruit flavours and a long, earthy finish. 

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  • 91p

Cockburn's Vintage Port 1912 / Seven bottles of this remained. There are now four. A perfect vintage (not unlike 2007). Rupert Symington: In 1912 there was a note from one of the Grahams in the Symington archives complaining that they couldn’t get the price he sought because Cockburn had so definitively the highest price. The field blends from which ports this old were made meant they were made from a mix of ripe and underripe grapes.
Not quite clear. Yellowing deep tawny. Not as charming and alluring on the nose as the 1927. Definitely smudgy and a bit metallic. Not graceful but certainly concentrated, impressive and assertive. My bottle was slightly drying out. But it’s valiant to have lasted. A little hint of apple. The finish was very slightly hard. 18 points

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  • 93p
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Douro, Douro
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