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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.
Quinta do Noval,
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The 2007 Quinta do Noval Vintage Port is a star of the vintage. Dense purple-colored, it gives up an already complex aromatic array of lavender, Asian spices, incense, and an amalgam of black fruits with a hint of chocolate in the background. Plush and mouth-filling, this large-scaled Port manages an uncanny blending of elegance and power. Long and savory in the finish, it will continue to blossom for another 20+ years and drink well through its 50th birthday if not longer.
The Noval showed a wonderfully rich volume of intensely pure fruit – I’d venture to say it was the most pure and refined of any 2007 I have tasted. Its mass of fruit was followed up with evident tannins – a richer style than some, almost showy, but with an exciting future ahead.
(Tom Cave, Berrys’ Cellar Plan Manager)
The Noval showed a wonderfully rich volume of intensely pure fruit – I’d venture to say it was the most pure and refined of any 2007 I have tasted. Its mass of fruit was followed up with evident tannins – a richer style than some, almost showy, but with an exciting future ahead.
(Tom Cave, Berrys’ Cellar Plan Manager)
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)
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)
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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