2004 Quinta do Vesuvio Vintage Port

[Frederick Blais]

I did open VEsuvio 2004 over the week-end(3 days).

Dark purple color as someone would expect it to be. The nose was showing flavours of extremely ripe crushed field berries, black cherries, dates too. Attractive but not charming. The palate is smooth, very sweet with low acidity, soft tannins and again ultra ripe flavours of dark fruits and some burnt flavours of dates, raisins and overripe plums. The finale is ok on chocolate, hot spices and overipe plums.

Overall this VP is drinking well in its youth but lacking the quality components that makes Vesuvio a great VP year after year. I was deceive, yes. 2004 was very hot and almost no rain fell that season and water reserve where down. It certainly shows that with this VP as it is the first time that I see one Vesuvio so ripe and overipe on the palate. I can't give more than 16,5? at the moment.

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