![]() ![]() Really well done for their entry Tawny (10 years) in the series. High-toned maple and icing sugar flavours play off base notes of blueberry, black licorice and violets on an elongated and warming finish. A full bodied almost creamy mouthfeel, with some alcohol heat and excellent length. Deft, rich and balanced, the Port’s expected brown sugar and butterscotch sweetness is offset by juicy red and black fruit and particularly by the wine’s notable structure, in the form of both spry acidity and surprisingly tongue-coating tannin. The delectable and varied nose is classic Tawny through and through, sticky toffee pudding and molasses lifted by blackberry, plum, sultana and orange fruit and laced throughout with baking spices, with some dark florals and pure grape emerging at the end. Much of the coverage of this wine speaks of its dark tawny brown colour, but my bottle at least had plenty of ruby left in its colouring, just fading to garnet at the rim but with none of the orange/amber/brown tones found in older Tawny Ports, which is consistent with the average age of the contents inside. There were white wigs involved and everything. The boat in question may have been a little more aerodynamic than 1692 editions, but it was wind-powered all the way. Second, part of the release of this anniversary wine involved sailing a cask of it from the Douro to London by boat in a recreation of the first-ever shipment of Port to its prior primary market. Rich and elegant nose combining aromas of ripe berry fruit with a delicate nuttiness and subtle mellow notes of chocolate, butterscotch and fine oak wood. First, the squat gourd-like bottle shape is a replica of the late 17th century sealed bottle that would have been in use to hold and market Taylor’s Port back at the time of its founding, right down to its embossed mercantile logo. I will restrain myself to two other cool facts about this landmark Wine For The People. The name tawny port comes from the colour the wine turns after wood ageing and the style gives a. If this does not instantly become the next birthday gift you want to buy for the wine lover in your life, I worry for you. A bottle of Taylors 10-year-old tawny port in a gift tube. Taylor intended this to be celebratory and drinkable at large, a monument for the masses, a conversation piece rather than a museum piece. Rather than building this one-off Tawny from ultra-rarified sources and then pricing it into the stratosphere (which it could easily have done, and quite successfully), it instead opted to take the top component lots of wines otherwise destined for its 10 through 40 Year Tawny lineup, blend them to about a 15 Year average, then age them together for 18 months so that it could release this (utterly spectacular looking) bottle at a shade below $50 retail. Unlike most fancy commemorative releases from leading lights in the world of wine, Taylor Fladgate has done something daring and remarkable and borderline audacious with this celebratory flask: it has made it accessible to the drinking audience at large. ![]() Happy (belated) anniversary, Taylor Fladgate! We’re back!! ![]()
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