Wines from Port
Wiese & Krohn NV Dry White Port (Port)
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- $16
Mature, definitely dry in character, with attractive wood acidity. Dark gold in color, it has just enough sweetness, but the style is certainly a sipping Port, not a mixer, giving an intriguing finishing austerity.
— R.V.
(12/15/2008)
J. H. Andresen NV White Port (Port)
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This small, independent producer has made a rich, unctuous, mouth-filling wine, with intense fruit and honey flavors, only just hinting at the spirit. A big, ripe wine, intensely flavored.
— R.V.
(12/15/2008)
J. H. Andresen NV 10 Anos White Port (Port)
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Beautifully balanced wine, showing slight age and maturity but also flavors of spice and orange marmalade. It has just the same balance between freshness and maturity as a 10-year old tawny, and gives as much pleasure.
— R.V.
(12/15/2008)
Wiese & Krohn 1964 Branco Colheita Port (Port)
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- $125
Toffee and vanilla aromas give an intensely sweet, molasses and caramel flavored wine in an almost syrup-like consistency. It is very ripe, with some honey, balanced with a surprisingly fresh citrus character.
— R.V.
(12/15/2008)
Barros 1978 Colheita Port (Port)
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- $85
The aromas are all of long beneficial wood aging, the fruit character replaced by wood acidity, while keeping intense richness. The wine is fresh, its acidity tightened by concentration. A classic colheita, it has age, spice and a sinuous, smooth texture.
— R.V.
(2/1/2009)
Warre's 1999 Late Bottled Vintage Port (Port)
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- $28
As is normal with Warre’s LBV, this is bottled with a sediment, meaning it can age in the bottle. It is beautifully balanced, the ripe flavors sitting comfortably with the core of acidity and dark tannins. There are dried fruits, raisins and sultanas, as well as fresher sweet plums.
— R.V.
(2/1/2009)
Poças 1986 Colheita Port (Port)
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- $75
Wonderful old fruit aromas come from this 22-year-old wine. The concentration is impressive, with flavors of old wood acidity and dried wood tannins layering over fruit that still shows prunes, raisins and delicious sweet spice.
— R.V.
(2/1/2009)
Barros 1963 Colheita Port (Port)
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- $215
Old Colheitas are often only sipping wines, ones to admire. That’s the case here, because there is a medicinal character that comes from extreme concentration. That said, it is a beautiful wine, all its elements there, the fruit still not quite gone, and the velvet texture sustained by the underlying spirit.
— R.V.
(2/1/2009)
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