1970 Taylor Fladgate Vintage Port

[Andy Velebil]

Last night I had some friends and my brother over for dinner. The final wine of the night was a 1970 Taylors VP. A good friend who works at a winery up north was down for a couple days and had never seen port tongs used...actually he admitted he had never even heard of them. Alas, my oportunity to have a little fun..so out came the tongs and torch. He loved it and thought it was cooler than sabering champagne.

No formal notes taken as I was also cooking (well sorta) dinner and this was at the end of lots of other wines and a 1988 Niepoort Colheita (b. 1996).

Decanted about 9 hours prior. This got considerably darker with air time and had a wonderful fruity nose. From the moment I opened this and took a small sip I knew the bottle was going to be awsome. Absolutly silky smooth with lots of fruit. the finish was super long and just kept going. This was a perfect bottle and it showed. It seemed younger than its 36 years. 97 points

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