For The Love Of Port

Decant: 12 hours - Now the serious tasting. 12 hours after decanting. Very sweet wine, the drops I spilt pouring into the glass have dried to be very sticky. Colour hasn't changed. Still an intense, deep red. No purple, no browning. Still very viscous, leaving a rim of colour when swirled in the glass - what an amazing boquet! Just swirling to see the colour on the glass fills my nose with blackcurrants from a couple of feet away. Wow! A touch too much alcohol on the nose for my taste when sniffed in the glass, but I am being hyper-critical. Underneath all those blackcurrants is something else, a touch of mint perhaps. Soft into the mouth, with a first impression of spearmint. Then wave after wave of sweet blackcurrant jam, developing into subtle hints of creamy coffee and chocolate behind all those blackcurrants. The unbalanced tannins from earlier are gone - in fact, all the tannins are gone! Finish is very, very long. At first it leaves an aftertaste of warm chestnuts, which fades into coffee and dark chocolate.

This is a lovely wine, which is extremely enjoyable now but which will be better in 5 years. This is still a wine where the fruit and primary flavours dominate. 94 points