Decant: 3 hours - South Africa. Cape Vintage. Decanted from a bottle with a pristine pale cork, branded 2003 on the top and with the producer's name along the side, sealed with red paraffin wax. The bottle was dumpy and made from green glass, transparent when decanting. Decanting through coffee filter paper separated out a little very fine sediment.
Deep red in colour, opaque at the centre and the rim, still with a touch of purple in the rim. On the nose shows deep, ripe bramble fruit and blueberries with a beautiful overtone of ripe pear - but not so much as to imply a wine spoiled by VA. In the mouth the wine starts restrained, not overly sweet, but with plenty of sweet and ripe fruit with many different layers of development over the top of round tannins; the acidity is pronounced - will this end up being too pronounced? I'm not sure. The aftertaste is the weakest point of the wine, taking a long time to make itself known but when it does appear it is a lovely sweet blackberry and black licorice flavour that goes on for a long time. 91 points
TN: 2003 Bredell's Vintage Port
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