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• FransS wrote: 94 points

  January 12, 2024 - Only one glass remained in the bottle for more than two weeks; an impressive deep, ripe and vivid colour, a complex bouquet with spicy wood, a whiff of vanilla and something like cinnamon. The taste is super smooth with ripe fruit and a ripe citrus backbone. The alcohol becomes covered by the concentration of the wine and the balanced aftertaste hardly disappeared. Not an eternal live, but be sure, there is still 100% live in this wine.

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• Xavier Auerbach wrote: 93 points

  April 18, 2023 - A private dinner with friends (Amsterdam, NL): Double decanted. Consistent with my previous note.

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• Xavier Auerbach wrote: 93 points

  April 4, 2023 - Not decanted, poured with great care so as not to disturb the sediment. In short: a fine 1985 Vintage Port of classical proportions. Mature but lively appearance; attractive and lifted nose, red cherries and berries, notes of warm spices and cedar, milk chocolate and white nuts, hint of spirit; delicately sweet palate, medium body, energetic and fresh, firm but well integrated tannins; orange and lovage on the complete finish with very good resonance and length. Jolly good VP! Drink now and over the next 10-20 years. Fourteen bottles left.

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• FransS wrote: 94 points

  November 4, 2022 - Open the bottle and you will be a bit disappointed; wait a day, or wait some days (the fridge or a cool corner seems me the best place) and you will become rewarded with a very elegant nutty, ripe citrus and red fruit & wood bouquet followed by an ethereal and superbly balanced taste. Not a power port, but a port with persistence into the long and refined finish, and you can still buy this still modestly priced Port.

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• Xavier Auerbach wrote: 92 points

  September 19, 2021 - Decanted. This bottle is on fine form. Mature but energetic, rich and spicy, slatey minerality, broad and mildly sweet but fresh and lively, black cherries and a hint of lovage, firm tannins, drying but long finish.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1985
• Type Red - Fortified
• Producer Kopke
• Varietal Port Blend
• Designation Vintage
• Vineyard Quinta São Luiz
• Country Portugal
• Region Douro
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Porto

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• In Cellars 8 (67%)
• Consumed 4 (33%)

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