Taylor's, Vintage Port 2003
$1,740.00
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Can drink, will improve · best from 2033 · will keep to 2065.
Tasting notes
Joe Czerwinski · Wine Advocate · 97
James Suckling · James Suckling · 94
This is coming around beautifully now with dark plums, orange peel, chocolate and graphite undertones. It’s full-bodied with fine and chewy tannins and a long finish—a very fresh and elegant Taylor for this hot vintage, which slightly surprised me from the beginning.
It’s drinkable but better in five years for me.
Richard Mayson · Decanter · 93
Leather, coffee and spice at the outset. Sweet spices, chocolate and mocha, bring depth and structure supported by firm, ripe tannins, leading to a berry fruit and bitter chocolate finish.
Drink 2022 - 2050
Stephen Tanzer · Vinous · 93+
Bright, saturated ruby. Vibrant, pure aromas of blackberry, violet and bitter chocolate. Juicy, minerally, precise and penetrating, but quite primary and unevolved today. Shows strong but integrated acidity and a tight kernel of fruit—best today on the slow-building, rising, aristocratic finish. But today, the wine's tannins are less evident than its acids. This seems distinctly less ripe and chewy than the great 2000 Taylor's, but it's still extremely unevolved. Latour-like in its structure and reserve.
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