For The Love Of Port

Opened this with a friend last night. Decanted for 3 hours before we began to drink. I saved a glass for the next day and tasted this again with 20+ hours decant time. My notes remained consistent although the nose did seem to be somewhat more generous on the first night and a little closed down on day 2.

Dark purple with a ruby colored rim. The nose gives dark brambly berries, black cherry, dark chocolate and toast. Medium sweet with fresh mulberry fruit over a smooth, chocolately backdrop and mild black pepper notes. There's a nice balance between the solid tannins and tangy berry-like acidity and the finish is quite long with a lingering chocolate and grapeskin character. Very good unfiltered LBV that will probably reward short to medium term cellaring as it has substantial structure. 89/90pts, Tasted 4/24/10

I seemed to like this one a bit better than you did, but our notes are otherwise, not too far apart. Thanks for the impression Lamont.

My pleasure Roy. Although our scores were a few points apart it sounds like we're in agreement that this is an excellent LBV.

After sitting next to Roy @ Glenn's Tasting on 30/04(and mentioning i couldn't get this easily in the UK, i paid around £25 for a bottle in Canada and flew it home in the suitcase) he recommended this LBV.

This was opened and left overnight (after initial taste which i felt needed more time for the Tannins and alcohol to soften) - A mighty LBV, Dark inky but with a brick red hue - nice tannins combined with liquorice/chocolate and cherry followed by a long Dry finish.

Liking this alot - 92 points

Now just to convince my wine merchant to hunt me some down.

Dom

2003 saw some really good LBV's made and this is up there among the top for sure.

dom carter wrote: i couldn't get this easily in the UK

This is stocked by the larger Tesco supermarkets for about £12.

Ah! thanks for that - I know someone who is a manager at a very large tesco's - i'll ask her if they stock it.