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  • Country ranking ?

    190
  • Producer ranking ?

    23
  • Decanting time

    1h
  • When to drink

    Now

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The Story

Dow’s Vintage Ports are only produced in years of exceptional quality and represent only a very small part of the total company’s production in that year. On average only two or three times every ten years are the weather conditions sufficiently good to allow for the making of Dow’s Vintage Port.

 

Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, Dow’s Vintage Ports have been landmark wines in virtually every great year, consistently setting the ...

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Vintage 1977

Declared by all the major Port houses, 1977 is a classic vintage. Marked by well structured, balanced wines with strong tannins, the wines from 1977 have great elegance and staying power. The best of them have the tannin and structure to age for decades.

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Put simply, this was my wine of the day, and I was far from alone in thinking that. Florals, violets, chocolate, and coffee beans, this is concentrated and yet seems to retain a degree of elegance, if that is possible. Serious intensity for the full length here. And such length! On this evidence, at least 10 to 20 years ahead of it. A wonderful Port. 98+.

 

  • 98p

Cloudy garnet-orange. Dried fruits, figs, dates, alcohol shows, raisins nose. Fresh acidity, few tannins, leaner palate, lacks a bit of fruit and body, alcoholic. 87

  • 87p
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Vila Nova de Gaia, Douro
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