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Brix Hutchinson posted an update 2 years, 6 months ago
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The United States Revolutionaries toasted the U.S. Constitution with Madeira. Factor enough to provide it a shot!.
The palate is open and vibrant – vinous, almost – with pure plum and dark cherry fruit backed up by warming spiciness and notes of earth, tea and tar. It’s drinking perfectly now, with beautiful intricacy and a dark elegance, however do decant this due to the fact that it has a lots of sediment in it.
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This is an extremely focused red with a sweet nose of ripe blackberry and plum fruit with complex hot notes. The palate is dense and sweetly fruited with spiciness and smooth but firm tannins. This generous red white wine is ripe however not jammy, and there’s beautiful balance between the sweet fruit and the more savoury, spicy components.
A crisp, rather mouth-watering style of wine thats bone dry and high in acid. This is a modern analysis of Vinho Verde, it still has the unique personality of wines from this region.
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Excellent things. 90/100 07/08 This Douro table red wine is one of the best-value examples of this genre around, and I reckon it can contend effectively with numerous of its more expensive peers. The nose is intricate with dark cherry fruit and some spicy, minerally depth. Its ripe and sweet, however savoury and balanced at the exact same time.
Its a bit restrained and tight on the nose at the moment, not offering a lot. Closed? White Wine is savoury with brooding dark fruits and an unique minerally, earthy severity. This is ripe, however its fresh and well defined at the exact same time not as showy or new-worldy as some Alentejo wines can be.
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The taste buds is really vibrant, with some sophisticated oak supporting the intense berry and cherry fruit. With good grippy tannin and fresh acidity, this is an actually sophisticated expression of the Douro that ought to evolve actually perfectly for at least a decade.
I ‘d be truly interested to see how this white wine develops – I reckon it will age well. 91/100 10/07 Niepoort LBV 2001 Douro, Portugal, This is a late-bottled vintage Port that would put some classic red wines to embarassment. On the nose there’s some spicy, herby complexity, with some lifted tar notes and a little bit of perfume.
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The taste buds is firmly structured and spicy, but still reveals more of this ripe, intricate fruit character. The company tannins recommend that there’s some advancement to come, but it’s already a modern, sexy wine with a hint of Douro wildness to it. Terrific concentration and focus, and reassuringly this isn’t simply another over-ripe late-picked worldwide red (regardless of the hefty 14.
The new incarnation is in a Bordeaux bottle and has been made in a more modern-day, less oxidative design. Its a bit of a bruiser, with extreme dark fruits on the nose and a spicy, chocolatey edge. The taste buds reveals ripe dark fruits with a rich chocolatey, spicy, earthy character.
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Extremely good/excellent 93/100 12/06 his old Port wasn’t decanted, therefore requires a little air to open up. It has a mellow, soft spicy nose that’s initially a little spirity, however becomes a rather fruity and fudgy. The palate is soft and complex with mellow red fruits, yet still has a little spicy bite.