For The Love Of Port

Filtered style of LBV. Bottled in 1988. Sealed with a T stopper. Virtually no sediment in the bottle. Browning rim, deeply coloured centre. Lovely nose of golden syrup and raspberries. Golden syrup comes through in the first flavours, then dates and dried figs. Very elegant mid-palate with plenty of complexity ending with burnt sugar and cornflakes. Aftertaste takes a while to build up but is dominated by espresso and pomegranate. Never a great aftertaste, but extremely pleasant. 90/100.

A great way to celebrate the start of the new year - with a port celebrating the 20th anniversary of its bottling and which would have made a very respectable vintage port.

I've got one bottle of this left and agree that its a decent drink. Especially when you consider that it is a filtered LBV that was not originally designed to be aged for 20 years!

I'm going to have to start buying a couple of bottles of each of these filtered LBVs and stashing/hiding them in the back of the cellar to age for 10-20 years or so, more or less to see what happens to them and so I can come back to this forum 20 years from now and do a similar type of TN on an old bottle of LBV.

Very nice Al! Good stuff and enjoy your new year!

Todd