Community Tasting Note
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mjwstickings Likes this wine: 87 points
August 19, 2021 - There's no denying the value here. This is a pretty good South African dessert wine, a port, from the Western Cape, from a highly reputable producer of approachable, if often basic, South African wine. And for less than $15. It looks like a tawny with its dark orange hue flecked with red, and it smells like a (very) young tawny with notes of burnt orange, raspberry, raisin, prune, and vanilla-caramel, though it's more like an LBV port than a tawny. It's quite a bit better on the nose than on the palate, where the flavours don't hold together all that well, where a certain bitterness persists, and where, simply, there's a lack of depth, but even there, it's decent overall, and overall it works better with dessert than as a sipper on its own.
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