1974 Antonio Bernardino Paulo da Silva Colares Collares Visconde de Salreu (V.S.)

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 91 points

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  9/16/2017 - forceberry wrote: 91 Points

  Bottled in the traditional 0,65 liter bottle.
  
  Translucent and quite pale red cherry color with a developed bronze hue and a wide, colorless rim. Aged, complex nose with aromas of dried dark cherries, pruney dark fruits, some tar, a little bit of lifted VA notes, a sappy hint of currant leaf and a touch of sweet raisiny fruit. The wine is practically bone-dry, medium-bodied and rather tart on the palate with high acidity. The flavor department is pretty light and lithe with developed flavors of cranberries and lingonberries, stony minerality, some dried sour cherries and a hint of crunchy white fruit. Overall the wine feels pretty taut and linear, with moderately high tannic grip further emphasizing the rather austere nature of the wine. The finish is long, dry and very savory with developed, nuanced flavors of tart lingonberries and cranberries, some smoke, a little bit of gravelly earth and a meaty, savory hint of salt-cured beef.
  
  For a wine over 40 years of age, this one was very much alive, although getting pretty mature. Most likely the wine had reached its plateau of maturity some time ago and it will stay there for a good bit more. Compared to may other old Colares wines, this one was a bit more linear and austere with a bit less depth and complexity to it, but still a very wonderful and tasty effort nevertheless. Overall, with its tart red fruit flavors and firm tannins, the wine reminded me quite a bit of Produttori di Carema's Nebbiolo di Carema with as much age. Pretty good value at 37,50€ if you enjoy older and lighter red wines.

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  6/13/2017 - Claw Dee Puss wrote:

  4 hour decant. 11%. Só Ramisco.
  This is not a very good bottle, sadly - you can taste the Ramisconess underneath, but too much uncharacteristic sour as well - shame. Still, on the up-side, I popped a Cockburn's 1985 VP - noted for very often being corked - and it isn't - some you win, some you lose.

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