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Dow,
For laying down,
This has a superb nose of rich, ripe berry fruit with the typical slightly austere and firm reserve of Dow. Analytically drier than usual, it is still blessed with dense fruit on the palate, a magnificent structure, weight and impressively long finish. On this showing, Dow is a strong candidate for wine of the vintage.
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Quinta do Vesuvio,
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The most impressive and beautiful Quinta in the Valley, architecturally speaking, with an appropriate structural counterpoint in its eponymous wine. An archetype Vesuvio, with haunting aromatics of violets, blueberries, figs and wood-smoke, and a palate where the tannins are powerful but integrated and the sweet and spicy elements are beautifully and harmoniously integrated.
(Simon Field MW, Berrys’ Port Buyer)
(Simon Field MW, Berrys’ Port Buyer)
New To BBX
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
£500.00
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Graham,
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Richly coloured, the Graham has dense and powerful aromatics, with crushed blackberry and plum fruit flavours entwined with rich spice, earth and hints of black cocoa. A magnificent weight on the palate captures the profundity of the best fruit from the best A grade vineyards, with Quinta Do Malvedos, as always, at the centre of the action. Sweetness and power vie for attention; ripeness is all, and all-embracing in this fabulous wine.
(Simon Field MW, Berrys’ Port Buyer)
(Simon Field MW, Berrys’ Port Buyer)
New To BBX
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
£399.00
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Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
£288.00
New To BBX
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
£298.00
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Bottle 3 x 75cl 1cs
£395.00
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Niepoort,
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Dirk Niepoort has produced a truly outstanding 2007; aromatically this is a delight, an over-flowing fruit-basket of indulgence. No change of tempo on the palate, which combines eucalypt, Seville orange and macerated cherries. Sweetness and tannins are harmoniously entwined; the wine crescendos wonderfully then lingers endlessly.
(Simon Field MW, Berrys’ Port Buyer)
(Simon Field MW, Berrys’ Port Buyer)
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
£295.00
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Taylor Fladgate,
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Nearly opaque and virtually inscrutable, this is benchmark Taylor, therefore benchmark Vintage Port. The nose is magnificently complicated already; schist, white pepper, lifted eucalypt and iodine all come to mind, all adding nuance and potential to the core of black fruit and dried flowers. Reticent and brooding at the front of the palate, the quality only becomes evident further back with definition and weight, power and precision, grace and favour, all seemingly contradictory, all effortlessly achieved.
(Simon Field MW, Berrys’ Port Buyer)
(Simon Field MW, Berrys’ Port Buyer)
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