LBV has become so well established that Taylor and Noval are at odds as to who invented it.
But the earliest LBV's were filtered and cold stabilised products that were never intended to bottle age, and would probably disappoint if opened today.
In the early seventies, a few producers began to bottle a simple unfiltered LBV, that was variously marketed as "unfiltered", or (somewhat mischiefously), "traditional".
Are old bottles of unfiltered holding up, or these wines firmly in the buy today, drink tonight club?
The oldest LBV I have ever had was a 1961 Dow's. It was in excellent shape in the 1980s -- I honestly can't recall if we opened this in 1981 or 1986 -- but I've not had any since.
Cheers,
Jason
Porto comes from only one place . . . no matter what the label says!
The oldest LBV I've tried was a Guedes 1967, bottled in 1973: a delicious Tawny when I tasted it +/- one year ago!
BTW: I believe the first true LBV made was the Ramos Pinto 1927 - a bottle of which is available in The Netherlands for a mere 800 Euros...but this might have been a one-off.
BTW: I believe the first true LBV made was the Ramos Pinto 1927 - a bottle of which is available in The Netherlands for a mere 800 Euros...but this might have been a one-off.
