1952 Graham's Diamond Jubilee Colheita

Striking mahogany, with hints of amber at its rim, the wine has an extraordinary aromatic intensity, redolent of old libraries, autumnal bonfires and distant poetry. The palate is profound and majestic, astonishingly intense and powerful, regal in its complexity, a timeless elixir. Notes of molasses, dried apricot, figs and clove, dance across the palate, elegant and symphonic in their structure, dignified and profound. Orange zest freshness and finely-wrought tannins underwrite structural harmony with the long finish indulging a gentle nostalgia and a real sense of worth.
(Simon Field MW, Berrys’ Port Buyer)
Presented in a custom-made gift box.

Graham’s Colheita Port Vintage 1952 is a 60 year old single-vintage Tawny Port (the official name for vintage dated Tawnies is Colheita), released to commerate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. It’s fabulous and expensive, but good value when you compare it to other fine wines with this much complexity and interest.The palate is rounded, intense and lively with warm, complex, almost impossibly intense flavours of raisin, spice, herbs and citrus fruits. Power and precision.
(96/100 points - Jamie Goode - wineanorak.com- April 2012)
Graham

"..I absolutely love this style of port, a long aged colheita (the sort of thing that houses like Niepoort have specialised in), when it's good and this one is very, very good. The fumes from a wine like this perfume an entire room. Here are just some of the aromas I noted when I first tasted it 10 days ago and when I smelt it again yesterday chez Berry Bros, who are the exclusive retailers of it in the UK (It can also be bought in Portugal): Walnuts, dried citrus peel, prunes, an edge of parmesan. With such a long time spent in cask (six in all, if I understood correctly), it is of course pale tawny with pale greenish rim and is rancio-issimo, but it is incredibly heady and rich without any sort of meagre skinniness."
(Jancis Robinson - Wine of the Week - Jancisrobinson.com - 04-May-12)

Lovely nutty, dried citrus-peel tawny with pale greenish rim. Ranco-issimo but lots of richness and no skinniness. Heady and prunes. Edge of parmesan.
Jancis Robinson MW, jancisrobinson.com, 17 July 2012

This is something really special: a parcel of extremely good tawny port from a single year that Graham’s decided to bottle for the Diamond Jubilee. It’s glorious: as rich as Christmas pudding, tinged with the scent of ground coffee and a sense of majesty. “1952 wasn’t a declared year,” explains Johnny Symington as I sip, “but we were very fortunate to have six pipes of this in our cellar. It’s been aged in oak casks for 60 years, so it’s almost indestructible; it will keep for a long time once the bottle’s opened.
(Victoria Moore - Daily Telegraph -13-May-2012)

The 1952 Diamond Jubilee Colheita is lucid amber in color. It has a beautifully defined bouquet with notes of walnut, smoke, fresh fig, mandarin and honey. It is very refined, almost bashful in terms of aromatics, but unfurls with each swirl of the glass. The palate has a wonderful, almost beguiling, smooth texture that caresses the senses into submission. Exquisitely balanced with notes of honey, fig and hazelnut, it comes across as an utterly refined, sensual Colheita that demonstrates impressive weight and viscosity on the Rancio-tinged finish. This is a magisterial Colheita. 96 points.
(Neal Martin - Wine Advocate - 3rd June 2012)