1966 Taylor Vintage Port

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Tom D.
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1966 Taylor Vintage Port

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Taylor Vintage Port Vertical (Los Angeles, California): Cheerful, young, cherry-garnet color. A slightly reductive nose at first, but quickly opening up to show ripe red fruits, light and bright, fresh and appealing. This is how this bottling shows when it shows well, pretty, fruity, a bit light and simple, a touch of heat, but quite irresistible. John Harvey of Bristol bottling, base neck, 4.5 hours in decanter. (93 pts.)
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For me, this was one of the truly great bottles at the entire tasting.
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Re: 1966 Taylor Vintage Port

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Roy, I think you found more complexity in it than I did. But I didn't bother looking very hard, I was just very happy to enjoy the bright fruit and nice clean profile (this is the only Port I've ever consumed an entire bottle of in one sitting a few years ago!). In any case, it confirms this a vintage of Taylor that can show really nicely, and I've had especially good luck with this bottling.
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