2001 Warre Porto Late Bottled Vintage

Community Tasting Notes (18) Avg Score: 89.2 points

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  8/26/2018 - Herschel Krustofski Likes this wine: 91 Points

  More evolved than a few years ago but still alive and well.
  Coravin sample. Needs at least 30 min of swirling in the glass to open up.
  Gone are the bright cherry notes.
  Darker flavours, more syrupy.
  Good value. Drink now or in the next 3-4 years.

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  4/27/2014 - BillyT wrote: 91 Points

  No personal notes. I will echo Benj and PRomain thoughts. Better than expected 3-4 days in.

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  3/2/2014 - richardkim Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Sweet and fruity, easy to drink. Nice nuttiness and tannic undertones. Good value.

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  3/4/2013 - wine30flight Likes this wine: 85 Points

  Nice, as expected, but I found it to not be as good as what I had hoped when I bought it. There are much better alternatives at this price.

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  2/26/2013 - rromain wrote: 91 Points

  2001 Warre Porto Late Bottled Vintage, Bottle Aged, Unfiltered; Bottled 2005, Released for Sale 2009. $33/750 ml. Warre's 'earlier bottled, late released' style has been a favorite of mine for a long time, and often will iimprove 15-20 years in cellar (such as the 1982). 20 pabv. Produced and bottled by the Symington family; imported by Vineyard Brands, American Canyon, CA.
  
  Cork-finished; could not be removed with an Ah-So, but a Waiter's Friend did the trick. Double-decanted through a port filter. A moderate amount of medium-sized, leathery crust. Quite bitty when examined in a Riedel Zin glass; heavy coating and tears; deep purple-gray, opaque coloration with a 2 mm meniscus, no bricking perceptible. At 12 years or age looks like a current release.
  
  Spicy-peppery cherry-mineral nose, with a juicy, lightly vanilla-tinged impression.
  
  A creamy, mouth-filling wine, with the alcohol and tannin texture coated with extract. Deep and focused cherry-juice impression, on the dry side, with a persistent ripely-tannic finish. Served with some Murray's Reggiano, it matches nearly as well with the cheese as a Gaja Barbaresco would.
  
  A very impressive specimen of this type, and totally pleasurable current drinking; with Warre's rusticity but with considerable depth of fruit, and time in hand, as Michael Broadbent would say. Drink now-2020. 91+/100

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