Vintage Porto Port Blend

Oceanic. Some smoke. Raisin and caramel. More like Madeira! Astounding length. Salty, biting. With almost a peppery bite on the finish. Tongue salivating. Perspiring. This heats up the body. Palate is perfect. Nose falls down a little- but this was from open bottle in enomatic so may not be the wine’s fault.

Vintage 1985 | incredible vivid, elegance, great effort

Shockingly powerful and electric. This starts with the youthful, bright purple appearance of a young, gently extracted syrah. The nose is a riotous, almost comedic mix aromas that are also echoed as flavors on the palate: grape cola, cocoa, blueberry, purple plum, cough syrup and black raspberry, all making their appearance as if on a stage. There are also inscrutable notes of playdough, light roast coffee, marzipan, cigar, tar, black currant leaf and green plum. Texturally this is a paradox, both dense and light, chalky and humming with energy. The sensory explosion carries for some time trailing off into prickly, silky tannins on the finish. Though it stains your mouth, you never notice such is the brilliant lightness of the wine. Perfect wine in the making.

A fun bottle to share. Hints of fruits underneath, with predominate cocoa, dark chocolates, caramel, faint dates. Lengthy finish sails on.

Delicious and well structured with a mellow black fruit jamminess that finished the night perfectly

Deep garnet with heavy sediment; medium plus intensity aromas of black cherry, cola, potting soil, amaretto, menthol, lavender, new leather (shoe store); medium sweet, medium plus acid, high, rough tannins, high alcohol, full bodied, pronounced intensity flavors of jam, blackberry, black plum, brandied cherries, dried fig, dates, cedar, licorice, lavender; medium plus finish

Still thinking about this and the dried date and apricot flavors with caramel. Delicious.

Crushed blackberry, minty eucalyptus, black cherry. A tasty and complex Christmas Port. Plenty young this is a hold for later days, but so good now! #niepoort

Great structure, nice tannins, long finish.

From Tuesday night. It's rare that someone asks me to open port, so this was a real treat indeed. #drankthewholebottle