Community Tasting Notes (262) Avg Score: 91.0 points

  • Un velour en bouteille. Caramel brûle, crème pâtissière, cassonade. Le fruit est sur les fruits séchés: raisins et abricots. Superbe !!

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  • From 75cl. Initially closed and merely sweet and delicious, this has opened up considerably in the last 3 days. Recent CT reviews emphasise different aspects of this excellent/outstanding wine. Here's my take: the aromatics are strongly herbal/chinato; the entry is initially deceptively sweet, but the transition to the grippy, structured, finely tannic mid-palate is swift. That mid-palate is texturally and aromatically miles away from the sweet velvet of fully mature vintage port, let alone a good ruby (like Graham's Six Grapes), offering the kind of tough love that should appeal to Barolo drinkers. The finish is relatively dry, all that aromatic action making you thirsty for more wine. Dangerously easy to drink another couple of glasses. This is what happens when you keep a good port wine 20 years in wood. If you love this style, you might rate it a bit higher than my 90-91P. My own preference is for a lot less oak and (ideally) 30-40 years bottle maturation, despite all of the patience, expense and sheer fuss required to bring vintage port to the table.

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  • Amber, golden tawny color
    Aroma:Characteristic "nutty" character, such as almonds
    Delicious mature fruit with hints of orange peel
    Additional notes include coffee, walnut, and hints of tobacco
    Palate: Rich, sweet, and smooth
    Perfectly balanced with good acidity for a long, lingering finish
    Toffee, caramel, burnt orange, raisins, dried plums
    Hazelnuts, with a savory hint of mushroom on the finish
    Orange cream, baked peach, milk chocolate
    Coffee, walnut, fig

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  • Purchased for $50. Dark amber in color with hints of ruby. This is not nearly as sweet as I was expecting. In fact, it's nicely balanced. Roy said Graham's 20s show less residual sugar than the 10s and 30s. I'll have to test that with a 30 (since I've had a lot of 10s). Walnut, dark caramel, prune, burnt citrus and tobacco (cigar, as opposed to pipe). Great acidity. Shorter finish than I would hope. Also some burn from the aguardente, which I'm not a fan of. Really nice, just wish the burn was less.

    OPINION:
    Recommended

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  • Deep tawny color. An even richer and more complex aromatic display, with roasted figs, dried orange peels, mixed with caramel, dried honey, sweet espresso, ginger snap cookies, and crumb cake. The palate is ripe and dense but stays enlivened with moderate acidity. Lovely flavors of pear butter, raspberry jam, dried apple slices, with all sorts of nuanced nutty, honeyed, salty, and crème brulee elements. Warm but invigorating, a lovely cold night sip with friends.

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  • By John Szabo, MS
    11/16/2020, (See more on WineAlign...)

    (NV Graham's 20 Year Old Tawny Port, Douro Valley (500ml) red) Login and sign up and see review text.
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  • By James Suckling
    9/23/2020, (See more on JamesSuckling.com...)

    (NV Graham’s Port 20 Year Old Tawny, Fortified, Portugal) Login and sign up and see review text.

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  • By Neal Martin
    Port Is For Life: Symington Vintage & Tawny Ports (Dec 2018), 12/1/2018, (See more on Vinous...)

    (NV Graham's 20-year Old Tawny Port (2018 Bottling) Fortified/spirits) Login and sign up and see review text.

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  • By Steve Thurlow
    9/14/2015, (See more on WineAlign...)

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  • By Roy Hersh
    Issue #61, 5/29/2011

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    Issue #45, 10/22/2009

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    Issue #45, 7/29/2009

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  • By David Lawrason
    12/20/2008, (See more on WineAlign...)

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  • By Stephen Tanzer
    March/April 1998, IWC Issue #77, (See more on Vinous...)

    (NV Graham Tawny Port 20 Year Old) Login and sign up and see review text.

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  • By Richard Jennings
    12/4/2014, (See more on RJonWine.com...) 93 points

    (NV Graham Porto 20 Year Old Tawny) Light medium red orange color with pale meniscus; aromatic, orange liqueur, baked raspberry, orange cream, almond nose; silky textured, orange cream, baked peach, milk chocolate palate with good acidity; long finish (about as good as 20 year old tawny gets)
  • By Richard Jennings
    6/4/2012, (See more on RJonWine.com...) 91 points

    (NV Graham Porto 20 Year Old Tawny) Light medium brown color with pale meniscus and ruby lights; coffee, walnut nose; tart coffee, walnut, fig palate; long finish
  • By Richard Jennings
    3/27/2010, (See more on RJonWine.com...) 91 points

    (NV Graham Porto 20 Year Old Tawny) Dark orange color with red lights and clear meniscus; roast coffee, bitter almond nose; bitter almond, deep roast coffee, nutty palate; long finish

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