TN: NV Quinta do Infantado port

[Al B.]

Decant: 3½ hours - Vintage Character, organically grown, bottled in 1996. Deep ruby in colour, almost opaque in the centre. A nose overwhelmingly of raspberry coulis! Very silky in the mouth, but watery in the mid-palate. An unpleasant bitterness behind the raspberries; tannic, but with the raspberries still present. Fortunately, the bitterness fades with time in the glass, but never enough for this wine to become pleasant. A fierce burn on swallowing, then a pleasant but quickly fading aftertaste which does hold on for a while at a low level of hazelnuts and raspberry. 86 points