Decant: 3 hours - Another of Makro's finest. Not so much sediment in this bottle, easy to decant due the bottle glass used - if only all bottles were like this one! Gave off an amazing nose of blueberries as it was decanted.
Deep red, lost the purple of youth but no sign of any browning. A little dusty and spirity on the nose, but lots of lovely raspberry tones. Sweet into the mouth, with lots of fruit. Still very tannic but with some wonderful complexity in the mid palate with at least 5 different layers of flavour developing. A swallow brings a quick burst of heat from the alcohol and then a lovely aftertaste with some enjoyable bitter liquorice tones around which several other fruit and chocolate subtleties fade in an out. This aftertaste lasts a significant time.
On Tom's scale, this is probably at the average of the VP's that I would expect to drink this year. It may get better with a few more years in the bottle, but I am not sure if it will do that enough to move slightly above the median so I will rate this bottle at 5-5. Not as good as the bottle I had in October '06 but then that had had another 6 hours of air time - maybe I need to try and come back to this wine tomorrow morning. 89 points
TN: 1989 Warre Quinta da Cavadinha Vintage Port
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