For The Love Of Port

Pop-n-Pour. This and the regular "cask" sample have the same youthful dark color. However, this has a distinctive and excessively protruding nose of vanilla bourbon from small oak barrels. This and the "Cask" could not be more different on the nose. That oak carries through on the palate. However, there is still enough young fruit to help balance some of that oak out, but not all of it. It does retain a lot of vanilla oak bourbon notes which causes the fruit to seem older than what it really is and reduces the tannin side of it. They both have a decently long finish, but this clearly show an older aged profile than the "cask" sample. This example shows how one can "artificially" age a tawny to show much older than what it actually is. Ready to drink now and I don't see this getting better with age. I preferred the "cask" sample to this "Burgundy Barrel."
Not rated being a cask sample.