Wine Spectator, 98 points: This is distinctive, with youthfully rambunctious dark currant, fig and blackberry fruit paste flavors liberally spiked with bramble, Turkish coffee and ganache notes. As the fruit pumps through the finish, a tarry...
Wine Spectator, 97 points: Juicy and muscular, with a ball of plum paste, warmed fig compote and black currant reduction flavors that need time to unwind. Ample graphite- and bramble-accented grip underscores the fruit on the finish, while a...
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 91 points: The 1996 Colheita Tawny Port is a field blend bottled in 2018 with a long cork and 121 grams of residual sugar. I've seen this bottling before, but some extra time in bottle has actually helped a bit, at least a little...
Wine Spectator, 98 points: This is well-packed, offering the vivid plum, boysenberry, cassis and açaí berry fruit profile of the vintage, along with a dark edge of tar, baker’s chocolate and salted licorice that courses underneath. The long finish...
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 97 points: The 2019 Vintage Port is a field blend aged for 18 months in old wood vats. It was bottled May 4, 2021, and has 100 grams of residual sugar. It was in bottle only a bit more than two months when tasted, but it seems quite...
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 99 points: (WA 97-99 points) The Fonseca 2011 is typically more forthcoming on the nose compared to the bashful Croft: a strident bouquet with lifted scents of freshly picked blackberries, kirsch, crushed stone and a dash of Hoi...
Wine Enthusiast, 98 points: The wine's fine perfumed black plum fruits give a wonderful jammy character while bringing out a fresh edge. These are balanced by the dry core of this beautiful wine with its rich, generous tannins. It will all come...
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 98 points: (96 - 98 points) The 2011 Taylor’s Vintage 2011 has a multifaceted, Pandora’s Box of a nose that is mercurial in the glass: cassis at first before blackberry and raspberry politely ask it to move aside, followed by wilted...
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 93 points: The 2019 Encruzado Reserva Quinta da Falorca (it also has 5% Malvasia, only because some Malvasia vines are sprinkled in the field blend) was partly (only 11%) aged for two months in new French oak, the rest in stainless...
Wine Spectator, 98 points: This packs a lot of fun, with a wallop of blackberry, fig, boysenberry and açai berry compote flavors working together, laced with a mouthwatering licorice snap note and driven by a fresh, well-detailed finish. A...
Vinous, 97 points: Saturated deep ruby. Brooding, reticent nose of cassis and kirsch; there's nothing cooked about this one! Then massive, sweet and superrich in the mouth; explodes with exotic ripeness. Intriguing note of graphite. This...
jamessuckling.com, 99 points: This shows fantastic graphite and dark-berry character with black-stone undertones and hints of dried roses. Full-bodied and very tight and precise. Good kick in the end. Love the polished tannins, which are totally...
Wine Enthusiast, 96 points: One of two single-vineyard wines produced at the Vale Dona Maria estate, this is massive in its power and complexity. Dark tannins and rich black fruits are embedded in a mix of wood, spice, acidity and tense minerality...
Wine Spectator, 95 points: This young Port shows intense aromas of black licorice and berries. It's full-bodied, with superfine tannins and a long, long finish. Seductive. Fantastic young Port from Churchill. Best ever. Best after 2012. — JS
For The Love of Port, 97 points: early opaque with a deeply saturated burgundy hue and a pink-tawny edge; the darkest color of any 1966 in the tasting. If we had been blind tasting, I would have been guessing 1985. I’ve experienced some bottle variation...
Wine Spectator, 98 points: This is packed with raspberry, blackberry and blueberry fruit flavors that play off one another, melding with anise, fruitcake and ganache notes. A warm tarry edge coats the finish, revealing an echo of bramble. A...
Wine Enthusiast, 88 points: This quinta is in the Rio Torto Valley in the heart of the Port vineyards. The wine is rich, sweet fruited, ripe with jammy blackberries and great perfumes. Open, already drinkable in a fruity way, it is likely to age...
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 97 points: A candidate for wine of the vintage the 2007 Graham's Vintage Port is complete in every way. Opaque purple-colored it offers up an ethereal perfume of smoke mineral Asian spices incense an amalgam of ripe black fruits and...
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 91 points: The 2007 Quinta do Retiro Nova Miso Vintage Port is a glass-coating opaque purple color. It sports an enticing bouquet of violets, spice box, mineral, licorice, and blackberry. This is followed by a supple, medium-weight...
Decanter, 96 points: Blend dominated by Touriga Franca (41%) and Touriga Nacional (37%). Mainly picked eight days after the mid-September rain: initially deep, ripe and dense on the nose, opening up to reveal a scented berry fruit bouquet...
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