Ripe black fruit finish together with some pepperiness. Balanced acidity with fruit and sweetness. A nice ripe black fruit and blackberries on the nose and palate. Rating: An almost opaque ruby colour in the glass. Overall a light mouthfeel, but with decanting it gets a slightly heavier mouthfeel and you now get medium intensity fine grained drying tannins.
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With decanting the wine bumps up to a medium plus body and has a touch of floral on the palate.įinish: A medium length finishing with sweet ripe black fruit, and pepperiness. Juicy blackberries and black fruit flavours, along with plums, red apples, and sweet spices with swirling. Medium acidity and fine, light drying tannins. Palate: Medium sweetness, with a lighter, thinner mouthfeel, but does get a bit heavier with swirling. Nose: Medium minus intensity showing sweet, ripe black fruits, blackberries, light oak and red cherries. Teardrops visible on the glass with swirling. It is ready to drink upon purchase.Īppearance: almost opaque ruby, 95%, but lighter at the rim. I read that it is meant to be a rich and fruity Port from selected individual wines, that are aged in a combination of oak vats and casks for three to four years. The First Estate Reserve Port is new to me. My Tasting Notes Taylor Fladgate First Estate Reserve Port (BC $22.99) These ports are fined and filtered before bottling so that no sediment forms in the bottle and you can enjoy them upon purchase. A Late Bottled Vintage Port wine comes from a single year chosen for its high quality, has a larger volume produced, and is bottled between 4-6 years after the vintage. Typically Vintage Port is aged for at least 15-20 years before it is considered ready to drink, but can age for up to 80 years or more, for very special vintages. The Vintage Port grapes can come from a single vineyard or even a single plot in a vineyard. Vintage Port is port that is produced by grapes from a specific year, usually with an excellent growing season that produces top quality grapes. What is Late Bottled Vintage Port? That is best answered by first defining what is Vintage Port. It is a fortified wine where the fermentation of the grapes is stopped before all the grapes’ sugars have been converted to alcohol then neutral grape spirits are added to bring the alcohol content to an ABV of 19.5%. Port is made from indigenous grapes, typically Touriga Nacional, Touriga Francesa, Tinta Roriz, Tinta Barroca, and Tinta Cao.
Taylor Fladgate Late Bottled Vintage (LBV) Port 2016 and Taylor Fladgate First Estate Reserve Port.
I have two port wines to review for you from Taylor Fladgate. In the midst of Winter with the darkness and cold outside, it is nice to enjoy comfort from a glass or two of port wine.
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