NV Dow Porto Late Bottled Vintage

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  2/24/2016 - sweetstuff wrote: 90 Points

  Purchased and tasted for the online tasting forum for TheLoveofPort.com.
  
  19.5 pabv; $25/750 ml, Dorothy Lane Market, Washington Commons, Kettering, OH; 94799 0204 9; 2015 release (approx).
  
  Decanted into an open-top crystal pitcher; and tasted fairly soon. T-Cork. Liberal tearing. Medium purple with no edge fading at all in the Impitoyable.
  
  Leafy, smoky, bacon-fat, thyme, restrained plum. .
  
  Limited sweetness and full, ripe tannins, with good minerals, energy, and juicy fruit. As is made from essentially the same vineyards as the Vintage, the fruit is anise-driven and similar in styling and definitely Dow. A typical and somewhat rustically enjoyable example of this ready-to-drink wine, which has less stripping-out than many a filtered 6 year LBV. Quite drinkable now and will hold a few years. Good with 5 year old Gouda.
  
  Would have to agree that this carefullly made example would be hard to distinguish from a 'traditional' LBV. The Symingtons have vastly improved their LBV wines; kudos to them. jht

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