Taylors 1985 Vintage Port

Taylor's 1985 Vintage Port

Grapes: A blend of 33% Touriga Nacional, 33% Touriga Francesa, 33% Tinta Roriz & 1% Other. 98 g/L residual sugar.

Producer Tasting Note:

Intense ruby colour, now just beginning to open out. Rich, complete, multidimensional nose, displaying elements of both youth and maturity. Aromas of ripe berry fruit, liquorice and butterscotch with scented violet notes. The palate is now quite smooth and round with velvety well integrated tannins and masses of rich figgy fruit flavour. Warm mellow finish full of rich jammy fruit.

Critics' Tasting Notes:

"Meaty, raspberry, blackberry, dark chocolate, fresh blueberry – a wonderful combo. Tobacco, sausage meat, smoke, leather, smooth tannins and fabulous vivacity."

18/20 points, Julia Harding MW, JancisRobinson.com, July 2010

"Fig, Christmas spice, milk chocolate and sweet coffee – really flamboyant and peacockish. A great example of port in all its pomp and grandeur. And still loaded with fruit! Invincible?" Drink 1995-2030

18.5/20 points, Richard Hemming MW, JancisRobinson.com, May 2018

"Delightful red fruit driving this, a gentle spirit here, also a gentle coffeeish and nutty savoury character, the red fruit softness is there, but it is taut on the palate, with such an edge: structured, 'iron fist in a velvet glove' stuff with a long, long finish of chocolate, woodsmoke and spice. Many merchants offer this by the case at time of review"

94/100 points, Tom Cannavan, January 2020

A great vintage port from the first unanimously declared vintage of the 80's. Ready to drink now