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Red - Fortified
2003 Graham First Flight Colheita
Port Blend
- Portugal
- Douro
- Porto
Community Tasting Notes 5
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SuperSomm wrote:
January 29, 2024 - Deep tawny colour. Pronounced and developing nose with caramel, fig, prune, coffee, coffee beans, toffee, vanilla, dark chocolate, roasted hazelnuts, honey and orange peel. Pronounced taste of caramel, coffee, coffee beans, toffee, fig, prune, vanilla, roasted hazelnuts, dark chocolate, orange and caramelized orange peel. Long and sweet finish. High acidity. Light tannins. Full body. A very good and well balanced Colheita. Drink now or over the next ten years. Goes well with cheeses, chocolate or caramel desserts.
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Philip_Bundpropperne Likes this wine: 90 points
December 8, 2023 - Rating: 4,0/5,0.
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SuperSomm wrote:
March 12, 2023 - Deep tawny colour. Pronounced and developing nose with caramel, fig, prune, coffee, coffee beans, toffee, vanilla, dark chocolate, roasted hazelnuts, honey and orange peel. Pronounced taste of caramel, coffee, coffee beans, toffee, fig, prune, vanilla, roasted hazelnuts, dark chocolate, orange and caramelized orange peel. Long and sweet finish. High acidity. Light tannins. Full body. A very good and well balanced Colheita. Drink now or over the next ten years. Goes well with cheeses, chocolate or caramel desserts.
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SuperSomm wrote:
February 25, 2022 - Medium tawny colour. Pronounced and developed nose with prune, caramel, coffee, coffee beans, dark chocolate, roasted hazelnuts, honey and orange peel. Pronounced taste of caramel, prune, coffee, coffee beans, dark chocolate, roasted hazelnuts, caramelized orange peel and orange. Long and sweet finish. High acidity. Light tannins. Full body. A very good and well balanced Colheita. Needed 15 min in the glass to open. Drink now or over the next ten years. Cheeses or caramel or chocolate based desserts.
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cofidis2 Does not like this wine: 86 points
December 23, 2018 - Tonight I finally opened my bottle. I'll post here then cross post to it's own TN. Bottled in 2017. Bought at Frankfurt airport in October 2018 for, IIRC, 35 Euros. The color is a medium/light ruby-tea color. A bit of a waxy and baked plum nose. The palate started out somewhat thick and lacking in acidity with a dominate flavor of baked plums. There's little complexity to this and the lack of acidity that continues throughout makes this very sweet and cloying. The finish is clipped and lacks any complexity to speak of. I have generally enjoyed the previous Graham's SHT's they've released. This one however, falls well short of the others. It is constant with other 2003 tawny's I've tried, with one notable exception being the Quinta do Noval, in that this very ripe vintage has made very good VP's but, at least at this young stage, not so good tawny's.
86 Points
Wine Definition
- Vintage 2003
- Type Red - Fortified
- Producer Graham
- Varietal Port Blend
- Designation First Flight Colheita
- Vineyard n/a
- Country Portugal
- Region Douro
- SubRegion n/a
- Appellation Porto
- UPC Code 5608309002579
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 0 (0%)
- In Cellars 54 (68%)
- Consumed 26 (33%)
Food Pairing
No food pairings available.
Who Likes This Wine
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- RegionDouro
- AppellationPorto
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