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2004 Quinta do Crasto Vinha da Ponte Douro   1999 Warre's Late Bottled Vintage Porto   Graham’s Six Grapes Reserve Porto   Taylor Fladgate 20 Year Old Tawny Porto   Taylor Fladgate 10 Year Old Tawny Porto  
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2004 Quinta do Crasto Vinha da Ponte Douro 2004 Quinta do Crasto Vinha da Ponte Douro
The Vinha da Ponte is a field blend from a vineyard first planted in 1914 by the current owners grandfather. It has become one of Portugals priciest, best and most famous wines at this juncture. The 2004 Vinha da Ponte is unfiltered and was aged in French oak barriques for eighteen months. Fragrant and seductive, this is a wine you can have fun just smelling at the outset. Its nose is one of its best features and worth a couple of points right there. The tannins are relatively refined, but clearly there, providing grip on the lingering finish, and becoming more obvious as the wine airs out and wakes up. It has a lively, sunny feel to it, although some oak is obvious around the edges at the moment. The mid-palate is elegantly crafted, not particularly thick, but with significant aeration, it fleshes out, expands and becomes lusher and more flavorful. This does not wins first prize in any category depth, intensity, power but it is impeccably balanced, very flavorful, refined and a pleasure to drink. It projects a suave feel, and the purity of its bright, flavorful fruit is a wonderful thing. Utterly closed when I first opened it, showing pretty much nothing and requiring nearly four hours in a decanter, it finally began to expand in the glass and flesh out, showing more depth, flavor and intensity. The more it opened up, the more beautiful the fruit became. I look forward to great things from this wine as it evolves in the cellar. It is not always an obvious wine, although no one will ever mistake it for austere. Give it a chance, think about it, and sit with it. I am betting that this will become more complex and more interesting as it evolves in the cellar. There were approximately 250 cases produced. Drink 2010-2024. Rated 95. ‑ Mark Squires, Robert M. Parker, Jr.'s The Wine Advocate Issue 169, February 2007
$100.00 the bottle  $510.00 the case of six

1999 Warre's Late Bottled Vintage Porto 1999 Warre's Late Bottled Vintage Porto
Warre's "Traditional" Late Bottled Vintage Porto, a.k.a. LBV, remains among the very best of its type. Unfiltered and bottle-matured, to be sure, it's bottled four years after the vintage (two years later than vintage Porto) and then held in bottle until fit and ready for consumption. So much of what is so great about mature vintage Porto, but, sans the wait, Warre's '99 LBV is rarin’ to go. Deep, deep purple in color with aromas of dried stone fruits, say cherry and purple plum, and just a wisp of grape spirit; on aeration, there's nuance of dark chocolate and baking spices, too; composed and complete on the tongue, packing a gentle wallop of easy, broad chalky tannins; an engaging, fortifying wine, warm and pleasant to the finish.
$27.50 the bottle  $280.56 the case

Graham’s Six Grapes Reserve Porto Graham’s Six Grapes Reserve Porto
Six Grapes is one of Graham’s original Porto blends. The rather curious and primitive depiction of bunches of grapes on the label has always been used on the cask ends in the cellar to identify the Six Grapes wines. In the Graham’s stocks a bunch of grapes signifies a wine of vintage quality and amongst these the six bunches denote the fact that this is the darkest and most full-bodied wine. It is a true expression of Graham’s house style with great richness and complexity – they refer to it as "the everyday Port for the Vintage Port drinker." Midnight ruby red in color with very primary aromas of ripe plum, prune, cherry, grape pomace, dried fig, tea leaf, bergamot, anise, cracked pepper, whoo, we could go on; rich, voluptuous even, on the tongue, then shows its warming grip with structure from velvety tannins; invigorating, fortifying, flavorful to the finish.
$17.50 the bottle  $178.56 the case

Taylor Fladgate 20 Year Old Tawny Porto Taylor Fladgate 20 Year Old Tawny Porto
While vintage Porto is bottled some 18 months following the vintage, Tawny Porto is aged almost entirely in cask, during this process throwing off its dark purple color in favor of a more "tawny" hue, leaving its sediments in cask rather than in the bottle, it’s once grapey, plummy fruit transformed into something more nutty and, frankly, sublime: refined and complex aromas suggest candied pecans, walnuts, caramel, dried fruit, roasted coffee bean and more; dangerously smooth, with slippery, silky textures; just warm, with ultra-complex flavors that oh so satisfy; both viscous and vinous, this is Tawny Porto at its very height of quality.
$47.50 the bottle

Taylor Fladgate 10 Year Old Tawny Porto Taylor Fladgate 10 Year Old Tawny Porto
This is a lovely, if youthful, 10 year tawny. Just sunset brickish orange-red at the edges; complex aromas suggestive of walnuts, almond, and crystallized red fruits; the texture is a very satisfying rich and silky with long, long flavors that conjure caramel, nut and crisp dried red fruits. A much to be savored tender sweet kiss of a bevy goodnight...
$27.50 the bottle

more Porto

Pack Size Vintage Producer Description Bottle
12 750   Broadbent Auction Reserve Porto $21.25
24 375   Broadbent Auction Reserve Porto $11.25
12 750 2001 Quinta do Crasto Late Bottled Vintage Porto $22.50
12 750   Croft Distinction Special Reserve Porto $13.75
6 750 2005 Croft Quinta da Roeda Vintage Porto $50.00
12 750   Delaforce His Eminence's Choice 10 Year Tawny Porto $19.99
12 750 1994 Dow's Vintage Porto $100.00
12 750 1991 Dow's Vintage Porto $87.50
12 750 1985 Dow's Vintage Porto $107.50
12 750   Fonseca Bin No 27 Porto $16.25
12 750 2003 Fonseca Late Bottled Vintage Porto $22.50
6 750 2003 Fonseca Panascal Vintage Porto $57.50
6 750 2003 Fonseca Vintage Porto $97.50
12 750   Graham's Six Grapes Reserve Porto $17.50
12 750   Graham's Tawny Porto Aged 10 Years $32.50
12 750   Graham's Tawny Porto Aged 20 Years $52.50
6 750   Graham's Tawny Porto Aged 30 Years $107.50
6 750   Graham's Tawny Porto Aged 40 Years $162.50
12 750 2003 Graham's Vintage Porto $95.00
12 750 1994 Graham's Vintage Porto $112.50
12 750 1991 Graham's Vintage Porto $100.00
12 750 1983 Graham's Vintage Porto $117.50
12 750 1970 Graham's Vintage Porto $275.00
12 750   Taylor Fladgate Tawny Porto 10 Year Old $27.50
12 750   Taylor Fladgate Tawny Porto 20 Year Old $47.50
12 750   Taylor Fladgate Tawny Porto 30 Year Old $107.50
12 750   Taylor Fladgate Tawny Porto 40 Year Old $140.00
6 750 2003 Taylor Fladgate Vintage Porto $97.50
6 750 2005 Taylor Fladgate Quinta de Vargellas Vintage Porto $62.50
12 750 2004 Quinta do Vesuvio Vintage Porto $53.75
6 500   Warre's Otima Tawny 10 Year Old $22.50
12 750 1999 Warre's Late Bottled Vintage Porto $27.50
12 750   Warre's Warrior Special Reserve Porto $13.75
12 750   Warre's Nimrod Tawny Porto $29.99

Quantities may be limited. All orders subject to confirmation. All wines subject to prior sale.

More Table Wine from Portugal

Pack Size Vintage Producer Description Bottle
12 750   Aveleda Casal Garcia Vinho Verde Branco $6.99
12 750 2006 Dow Vale do Bomfim Douro Reserva $9.99
12 750 1996 Casa Ferreirinha Douro Reserva $62.50
12 750 1994 Casa Ferreirinha Douro Reserva $62.50
12 750 1989 Casa Ferreirinha Douro Reserva $62.50
12 750 2007 Quinta do Crasto Douro $17.50
6 750 2003 Quinta do Crasto Douro Tinta Roriz $70.00
6 750 2005 Quinta do Crasto Douro Touriga Nacional $95.00
6 750 2005 Quinta do Crasto Douro Vinha Maria Teresa $142.50
12 750 2006 Pinhal da Torre Quinta do Alqueve Tradicional $9.99

Quantities may be limited. All orders subject to confirmation. All wines subject to prior sale.

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