Community Tasting Note
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Butzemann wrote: 89 points
January 21, 2022 - Bottled unfiltered in 2007.
D+0h: cork almost breaks when using a standard corkscrew, so I switched to a butler’s friend to get the cork out completely, for a port of this age it’s only a medium deposit (if it was a red wine, I would call it “a lot of deposit”), smells seductively of currant D+13,5h: colour between dark as ink and purple red, smells of currant, a little bit of liquorice, a little bit of eucalyptus and a little bit of dark chocolate, smooth in the mouth, not hot/spirituous, sweet, but not overly sweet (for Warre, which has one of the sweetest house styles in the port trade, it’s almost “off-dry”), medium body, in the mouth currant, liquorice, dark chocolate and a little bit of eucalyptus, in the aftertaste liquorice, dark chocolate, currant and acidity, very good length (45 sec), good unfiltered LBV, but I had expected more from Warre’s which probably make the best unfiltered LBVs on the market. Everything that makes a great port is there, but it’s kind of pale or tuned down right now. I guess given the vintage it probably needs more time (one or two years) to really show its true potential.844 views