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Dow,
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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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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)
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
£290.00
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
£295.00
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Symington Family Estates,
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It was a great honour for Berry’s when Peter Symington, as part of his retirement celebrations (after a mere 45 years making superlative wines for Graham, Dow, Warre and the rest of them), made a very special vintage port, especially for us, its fruit sourced predominately from vines that also go to make up the Graham blend, in itself on of the top performers of the superlative year that was 2007.
The wine does not disappoint; the dark inky colour and wonderfully floral nose (crushed pepper and violets) give way to a palate where there is an almost perfectly harmonious balance between the sweet and the savoury elements, the purity of blackberry fruit poised in elegant counterpoint to the spirit and the powerful tannins on the finish. Vinhas Velhas (old vines) explain both the concentration and the length of this very fine wine, surely one of the best ports ever to come under the Berry’s Own Selection Label.
(Simon Field MW, BBR Buyer)
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Wines for our Berrys' own selection are hand-picked by our expert buyers and are standard-bearers of style and quality from classical wine regions, offering exceptional value for money. This is a superb vintage port! It has a core of vibrant, dense sweet black fruit which sings from the glass and is absolutely delicious to drink now.
However the sheer concentration of this wine and the robustness of its tannic structure will ensure a long future if you can bear to wait; over the next couple of decades you can look forward to the development of a gorgeous savoury complexity not unlike that of a fine Burgundy or top claret, and the softening of those firm tannins to give a divinely silky texture. An absolute steal at the price.
(Anne McHale, Wine Education Specialist, February 2012)
The wine does not disappoint; the dark inky colour and wonderfully floral nose (crushed pepper and violets) give way to a palate where there is an almost perfectly harmonious balance between the sweet and the savoury elements, the purity of blackberry fruit poised in elegant counterpoint to the spirit and the powerful tannins on the finish. Vinhas Velhas (old vines) explain both the concentration and the length of this very fine wine, surely one of the best ports ever to come under the Berry’s Own Selection Label.
(Simon Field MW, BBR Buyer)
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Wines for our Berrys' own selection are hand-picked by our expert buyers and are standard-bearers of style and quality from classical wine regions, offering exceptional value for money. This is a superb vintage port! It has a core of vibrant, dense sweet black fruit which sings from the glass and is absolutely delicious to drink now.
However the sheer concentration of this wine and the robustness of its tannic structure will ensure a long future if you can bear to wait; over the next couple of decades you can look forward to the development of a gorgeous savoury complexity not unlike that of a fine Burgundy or top claret, and the softening of those firm tannins to give a divinely silky texture. An absolute steal at the price.
(Anne McHale, Wine Education Specialist, February 2012)
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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)
Bottle 6 x 75cl 1cs
£268.00
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£330.00
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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)
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