2001 Taylor's LBV Port

[Bjørn Tore Aastorp Ruud]

Color: Deep dark red with dark brown.

Nose: Dark caramel, chocolate, spices, peppery, black ripe plum, prunes, some flowers, some vanilla, marsipan and cherry. After decanting for a while it shows some orange marmelade and maybe dried apricot.

Palate: Full bodied, same aromas as above, good concentration, very good balanced structure in the wine, very long rich and fresh finish, firm in the end. Sweet but not to sweet.

Foodmatch: Game, rich mature cheese, chocolate desserts.

Cellaring: 0-10 years. It is ready to drink and it is a filltered wine, but I think it will develope nice in the bottle. Some will say that filtered LBV does not develope in the bottle, I am not sure about that.

Very good wine. I was positively surprised because I have had my chear of Taylors that have been to sweet and plump, lacking acidity. BTW I have not tasted a lot of taylors, so maybe I have been unlucky. This LBV is very good quality.

[Felix Warners]

Hi Bjorn,
I opened this port 2 days ago and liked it a lot less than you did. I was in a tasting where we tasted 12 LBV's from 2001 so pretty funny you post now some TN on wines I had 2 days ago.
I found that the Taylor lacked a bit of power and in the nose as in the taste I found it a bit boring. Not that it was bad but comparing it with the 2001 Grahams LBV or the Warre 2001 LBV I found this really a lot less.

[Bjørn Tore Aastorp Ruud]

Felix.
I liked it a lot, but of course there are many better LBV`s.

[Felix Warners]

Bjorn.
I gave this negative response about the Taylor because IMHO there are better alternatives for the same price widely available.
For some reason the prices of most LBV's are the same, good ones or bad ones all are between 12 and 18euros.
So I did not want to give the impression that the Taylor LBV 2001 is a bad port. Just that I would not buy it myself again because I feel there are alternatives that bring a similar style that are better.