2007 Dow Porto Colheita

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 90.8 points

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  1/21/2024 - arkitek Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Very enjoyable. Garnet colored, viscous. Smells like raisin, spices (clove, pepper) and a hint of mustiness. Alcohol quite present. Sweet, warming and smooth with again raisin notes, caramel, and christmas spice . Medium/full bodied and decently long finish.

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  8/13/2023 - Poussin wrote: 88 Points

  Didn’t make a detailed note. Didn’t think it was that special. Warm, alcoholic and tannic. Elegantly restrained sweetness with some nutty and spicy complexity; there’s also a note of old books. Well made, ticks the tawny boxes, but it’s not my favourite port style.

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  8/20/2022 - forceberry wrote: 91 Points

  Aged oxidatively for 14 years, bottled unfined and unfiltered in 2021. 20% alcohol, 110 g/l residual sugar and 4,2 g/l acidity.
  
  Deep and almost completely translucent syrupy-brown color with subtly cherry-red highlights. Sweet, moderately oxidative nose with intense aromas of maple syrup and caramel, some raisiny tones, a little bit of dried dates, light cherry marmalade tones, a Marsala-like hint of rancio, a boozy touch aguardente and a whiff of Christmas spices. Lots of everything, making the overall feel quite complex and very attractive. The wine feels sweet, somewhat oily and slightly hot on the palate with a full body and intense flavors of raisins and prunes, some Christmas spices, a little bit of cherry marmalade, light oxidative notes of caramel and a hint of dried dates. The acidity might be a little bit on the low side here, but somehow the high alcohol makes the mouthfeel somewhat airy and not that heavy, while the subtly grippy tannins bring some welcome firmness to the palate. The finish is long, rich and quite hot with a lengthy aftertaste of raisins, some dried dates, a little bit of oxidative nuttiness, light caramel tones, sweet hints of maple syrup and youthful cherry marmalade character and a touch of Christmas spices.
  
  A delicious and quite classic Colheita. The overall style is a bit on the sweet side for a Dow's with a rather modest acidity - I think might've enjoyed a wine with less RS and more acidity even more - but this is still a fine and thoroughly enjoyable effort with great oomph, complexity and depth of flavor. Priced according to its quality at 35,99€.

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  5/1/2022 - cofidis2 Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Bottled in 2021. A dark reddish-brown in color. Nose has saddle leather and a faint touch of raisins. The palate still has a hint of red fruit but otherwise dominated by mature notes; anise, toffee, mocha, and baking spices. There is a little drop of youthful spirit on the otherwise medium-long finish. Given it's relatively young age for a tawny, 14 years when bottled, it's nicely balanced and worthy of getting more. I've had a couple bottles and both were consistent in the upper end of younger Dow's tawny's I've had.
  90 Points

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