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  • Country ranking ?

    187
  • Producer ranking ?

    14
  • 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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Vintage 1945

Port Vintage Report: Classic Vintage, full-bodied, deep purple and sweet, with a large concentration of fruit and tannins. First post-War Vintage. Bottled in Portugal, owing to English restrictions. Almost all producers declared production. Low production year. Dry year, with a very hot summer, and only a few rains at the end of August. Early harvests, starting in the first half of September.

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NB Not declared. A legendary vintage which Cockburn (‘in their inimitable style’) decided not to declare. The post-war problems of shipping were partly to blame. Dow 1945 was bottled in sherry bottles, for example. Most of the 1945 port was UK bottled. Cockburn decided to put much of this wine into a single 63-litre glass jar although  Paul S reported there were 749 bottles in stock (with ‘1945 Crusted’ on the cork because this was not officially declared as a vintage port). Declared by 22 shippers. It was probably better in Rio Torto than Douro Superior (where so much of Cockburn’s wine was grown), which may have been too hot. The wine was bottled for a tasting in London in the early 1970s.
Very pale tawny. Looks very old. But wonderfully clear. Very, very mature nose. With masses and masses going on on the palate. Seems much older than the 1947 and 1948. Liqueur texture. Treacle toffee and quite a dry finish. This seemed obviously to have been made in quite a different way, so not strictly a vintage port.

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