Community Tasting Note

Paul S wrote:

Friday, June 19, 2009 - Lunch at the Square (Mayfair, London): An absolutely lovely port, and a real treat with stilton cheese. Stunningly young though. Along with lovely spice cake, figs, raisins, toasty smoked nuts and mahogany tones on the nose, there was also a fresh dark fruit component, perhaps shading into quince preserve, that ran through the nose an into the palate. And what a palate that was too. Superb balance, lively acidity lending a great freshness, very well fruited with more of that lovely dark fruit, almost liquered, and lovely secondary characteristics of vine leaves, all in a clean, lithe package with the lushest tannins. There was a really nice expansion of fruit in the mid-palate as well, very quince-paste like flavours. Finish was nice and bright, with a linger of smokiness and prickly acidity. This still has a very long way to go, especially when compared with the 1983 and 1980, which seem miles more developed. Excellent. I would have rated this even more, if not for the fact that there seems to be a little gap, a little hidden complexity in there that will take some bottle-age to coax out. A real pleasure on the day though.

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