2017 Cockburn Porto Vintage

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 91.6 points

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  2/19/2024 - Motz wrote: 93 Points

  Tasted alongside the 2016
  
  The loud, fruit and berry driven bouquet also features unbalanced alcohol. The wine tastes like it smells, along with the all too predictable alcy burn. Medium acid and tannin.
  
  Overall, an in-your-face blockbuster. Wines in this style tend to flame out after twelve to fifteen years from vintage. Alcohol will likely preserve its shell for several years thereafter.
  
  Best with marbled steak. In no way the equal of the 2016.

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  10/27/2022 - seijaro Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Drank some at 4:00 o'clock Happy Hour chilled with salted cashews... delicious! Some friends spent a week in Oporto, said the natives drink it that way. Sounded like heresy until we tried it, now we are hooked. But it has to be vintage port, not tawny or ruby NV.

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  10/23/2021 - ShaneTierney Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Decanted 48 hours. Tasted blind alongside '16 Cockburn VP, '16 & '17 Dow VP, '16 & '17 Taylor's VP.
  Fruit was more balanced and bright than the 2016 Cockburn. Possibly the shortest and least tasty finish of the night.
  Excellent, and would shine on a night of its own, but up against steep competition.

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  6/11/2019 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 93 Points

  Symington Vintage 2017 Presentation (NewWerkTheater, Amsterdam, NL): Quinta dos Canais 74%, Quinta do Vale Coelho 18%, Quinta do Cachão do Arnozelo 8%. Touriga Nacional 52% (800 g/vine), Touriga Franca 30% (670 g/vine), Sousão 10% (1.3 kg/vine), Alicante Bouschet 8%. TA 4.57 g/l, Baumé 3.5. Bottled May 2019. Firm, tannic, black fruit, violets, spices, powerful, ripe cherries, robust rather than refined.

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