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Where available, tasting scores and notes are by Robert Parker (RP) and taken from his website www.erobertparker.com 
or Stephen Tanzer (
ST) from www.wineaccess.com, or
and Wine Spectator (
WS) from www.winespectator.com
Year
Price per
Bottle
including
VAT
Tasting
Score/Notes
Best Drinking
    WINES      
    QUINTA DO VALE MEAO    
 
11
75cl
Meandro
Douro Red
WS
- An intense kirsch-like aroma is followed by pure flavours of dark cherry and blackberry, with loads of mineral and spice. Refined and powerful, with a long, long finish of iron and hot stone. Touriga Nacional, Tinta Roriz, Touriga Franca and Tinta Barroca.
2004 £15.00 WS92
Now 2012
10
75cl
Vale Meao Tinto
Douro Red
WS
- Deeply coloured and powerful, with a rich, fruity aroma and layers of kirsch, mocha, dark plum and spice flavours. Immense structure. Fine-grained tannins, with a long, powerful finish of meat, smoke and chocolate. Touriga Nacional, Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz and Tinta Barocca.
2004 £44.00 WS97
Now-2015
           
    VINTAGE PORT      
    CROFT    
 
36
75cl
Croft Vintage Port
RP - A striking, individualistic nose of spring flowers, blackberries, blueberries, and lead pencil shavings emerges from this saturated purple-coloured 2000. Evolved yet expansive, sweet, and generous, it admirably conceals moderately high tannins under a wealth of fruit and glycerine. The aromatic profile and attack merit a score in the mid-nineties, but the finish is short, thus lowering the overall rating. My instincts suggest there is more to this port than it revealed the days I tasted it.
2000 £38.00 RP90
2007-25
47
75cl
Croft Vintage Port
RP - The 1994 Croft exhibits an impressive dark ruby/purple colour, and a developed, forward, more evolved style than expected. It is moderately sweet, full-bodied, expansive, pure, and rich, but made in an up-front, flattering style. Although outstanding, it is not one of the superstars of the vintage.
1994 £42.00 RP90
2000-20

Top Port Vintage!

           
    DOW    
 
30
75cl
Dow Vintage Port
RP - Aromas of preserved cherries and plums with pronounced spiciness: vanilla pod, star anise and cassia. The palate is understandably tight, restrained, yet already showing superb acid / sweetness / tannin balance. Plenty of rich, spicy fruit is supported by a medium to high level of very finely grained tannins. Nice backbone of refreshing acidity. Very long finish.
2007 £48.00 RP96
2020-50
6
75cl
Dow Vintage Port
RP - The complex aromatics of the opaque, black-coloured 2003 Dow Vintage Port display chocolate, dried oak, black cherries, blackberries, copious spices, and a myriad flowers. This fresh, backward wine offers a medium to full-bodied, deeply concentrated core of spice-laced dark fruits. Softly-textured and seductive in the mid-palate, it boasts abundant layers of candied Damson plums, blueberries, black cherries, molasses, and hints of chocolate before revealing its firm structure. Extremely youthful and primary, this exceptional effort demands patience.
2003 £42.00 RP94
2025-45
25
75cl
Dow Vintage Port
RP - An opaque blue/purple colour (typical of this vintage's top offerings) is followed by a strikingly provocative aromatic display (flowers, liquorice, blackberries, and cassis). This firmly-structured, classic, tightly-knit, restrained port exhibits brilliant purity as well as impressive intensity. While not the most dramatic or flamboyant, it is a beautiful, classically structured port that will age gracefully.
2000 £45.00 RP94
2010-35
24
37.5cl
Dow Vintage Port

As above, but
HALF-BOTTLES
2000 £25.00 RP94
2008-32
32
75cl
Dow Vintage Port
RP - The massive 1994 is unquestionably the finest Dow I have tasted since the 1977. This opaque purple-coloured wine is not as developed or flamboyant as Fonseca, but it is super-concentrated and multi-layered, with huge masses of fruit and some tannin in the finish. This is a slightly drier style than Fonseca or Graham's, but it appears to be a classic, majestic, enormously constituted 1994 that should age effortlessly for three decades or more.
It is one of the stars of the vintage.
1994 £55.00 RP96
2004-30
    FONSECA    
 
36
75cl
Fonseca Vintage Port
RP - A limpid purple garnet core. The nose is quintessential Fonseca, like a riotous party reaching its crescendo in the glass. Macerated black cherries, eau-de-vie, damson, fig and a touch of Seville orange. Then what is fascinating is that the uproar dies down with aeration, becomes more focused...as if the host has asked everyone to quieten down. The palate is powerful and spicy on the entry, sweet ripe black berried fruits, a touch of spice, fig and apricot, lovely cohesion and weight building towards a deeply joyous finish that lacquers the mouth in port-like reverie. Perhaps more approachable than the 2000 or the 2003 at this stage, this is a marvellous Fonseca.
2007 £47.00 RP96
201545
           
    GOULD CAMPBELL    
 
24
75cl
Gould Campbell Vintage Port
Wine Spectator - Loads of liquorice and berries on the nose follow through to a full-bodied palate, medium sweetness and masses of fruit. Long finish. Very layered. What a deal.
2003 £42.00 WS95
2014-40
12
75cl
Gould Campbell Vintage Port
Wine Spectator
- Rich aromas of plum and fresh stem, with a leafy undertone. Intense strawberry. Full, lightly sweet, chewy and solid. This has grip. Juicy. Lots going on. Youthful and structured. Beautiful.
1997 £32.00 WS91
2009-35
           
    QUINTA DO VESUVIO    
 
48
75cl
Quinta do Vesuvio
Vintage Port
Wine Spectator
- The nose is somewhat subdued giving a gentle perfume of kirsch, violets, macerated blackberries and cedar complimented by earthy aromas of loam and underbrush. The palate is taut with crisp acidity and a high level of very fine tannins. Just enough richness to flesh-out the palate but not overwhelming. Very long finish.
2003 £48.00 WS95
2014-40
18
75cl
Quinta do Vesuvio
Vintage Port
RP
- Quinta do Vesuvio's saturated blue/purple colour is more dense than many of its peers. Impressive in the mouth, with full body, sweet crème de cassis and blackberry liqueur intermixed with smoke, earth, and spice, this sensual effort possesses elegance allied to power and authority. Complex, fat, rich, and intense, it is exceptionally stylish.
2000 £42.00 RP91
2006-20+
48
75cl
Quinta do Vesuvio
Vintage Port
RP
- A delicious, forward, dark saturated ruby/purple-coloured port, this 1997 reveals copious quantities of jammy, grapy, black fruit flavours intermixed with earth and spice, full body, and silky tannin. It should drink well soon, but last for two decades.
1997 £41.00 RP90
Now-2020
6
75cl
Quinta do Vesuvio
Vintage Port
WS
- Terrific aromas of berries and violets, with a hint of mint. Full-bodied and lightly sweet, with fine, silky tannins that build on the palate and caress the tongue.
Outstanding concentration and harmony. Greatest Vesúvio this century.
1994 £52.00 WS96
2010-30
           
    NIEPOORT      
48
75cl
Niepoort Vintage Port
Wine Spectator
- Thick and jammy, with loads of blackberry and plum character. Full, very sweet and round. Caresses your palate. Very fruit-driven, but lots of tannin structure as well. Sneaks up on you with the power. Was a bodybuilder, but now a long distance runner. Love it.
1997 £38.00 WS96
2012-35
           
    TAYLOR FLADGATE      
36
75cl
Taylor Fladgate Vintage Port
RP
- Remarkably deep in colour, almost to the verge of being opaque. The nose is very well defined but much more introverted than Fonseca - aloof, stentorian, correct. The palate is full-bodied, beautifully defined, great weight that is channelled in one direction. Brilliant focus here, less extrovert than Fonseca of course but more refined and sophisticated. Certainly this is a Taylors for long-term ageing, one can feel it reserving its energy for 20-years down the line. Great backbone here. Very harmonious towards the finish that really caresses the palate, with a hint of white pepper lingering in the mouth.
Wonderful.
2007 £52.00 RP97
2015-45
18
75cl
Taylor Fladgate Vintage Port
RP
- The 2003 Taylor Fladgate Vintage Port improved each time I raised it to my nose or mouth. It displays a black colour and a salty, graphite-laced nose packed with sweet black fruits that is reminiscent of a stellar vintage of Chateau Latour. With air, notes of molasses, burnt sugar, spices, and jammy plums emanate from the glass. Full-bodied, hugely dense, immensely rich, as well as thick, this behemoth is also amazingly balanced and harmonious. Raisins, molasses, liquorice, black cherries, plums, and a distinctive note of violets are found in its complex, seamless character. Its interminable finish reveals additional notes of chocolate, kirsch, red as well as black currants, dark cherries, and rose blossoms. Armed with exceptional power, depth, and purity, this Taylor will proudly stand shoulder to shoulder with the finest ever crafted by the Fladgate Partnership.
2003 £78.00 RP99
2035-60
24
75cl
Taylor Fladgate Vintage Port
RP
- Among the most saturated blue/purple/black-coloured examples of the vintage, Taylor's 2000 tastes like a young vintage of Chateau Latour on steroids. Aromas of graphite, blackberry liqueur, crème de cassis and smoke jump from the glass. Spectacularly concentrated and enormously endowed, with sweetness allied to ripe tannin, decent acidity, and layer upon layer of fruit and extract, this is the leading candidate for the port of the vintage.
2000 £65.00 RP98
2010-40
35
75cl
Taylor Fladgate Vintage Port
RP
- Saturated black/purple-coloured, with stunning aromatics of blueberries, blackberries, liquorice, and iron, this spectacular vintage port is one of the stars of the vintage.
Extremely full-bodied, with silky tannin, spectacular concentration and purity, multiple flavour levels,
and an evolved, forward personality, this is an exquisite yet precocious 1997 vintage port.
1997 £56.00 RP96
2004-30
           
    WARRE      
36
75cl
Warre Vintage Port
Wine Spectator
- I love the nose on this, with blackberry, black liquorice, and dark chocolate. Full-bodied, medium sweet and very, very dense. What seductive mouthfeel, with polished, round tannins that caress the palate. This may be better than the fantastic 1994.
2007 £46.00 WS97
2015-40
59
75cl
Warre Vintage Port
RP
- One of the finest Warres I have ever tasted, this opaque purple-coloured wine is made in a drier style (a la Dow), yet it is expressive, extremely full-bodied, with superb richness, purity, and well-integrated alcohol and tannin. It possesses a great mid-palate as well as impressive length. Tasters should take note of the wealth of peppery, liquorice-scented and flavoured raspberry and blackcurrant fruit. Look for it to be ready to drink in 10-12 years, and keep for 30+.
This is a profound example of Warre vintage port.
1994 £42.00 RP94
2008-40
           


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