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Taylor's, Vintage Port 2011
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Description
Tasting notes
Reviewed by: Stephen Tanzer
Bright medium ruby. Knockout nose combines smoky dark fruits, exotic flowers, spices, dried lavender, minerals and a balsamic nuance. Hugely concentrated, dense and primary but with penetrating minerality giving finesse and precision to the mid-palate. Extremely fine-grained, classy wine with fresh acidity and restrained sweetness. The firmly tannic, mineral-tinged finish features outstanding perfumed persistence and the structure and balance for decades of development in the cellar. Still, this is not as austere in its youth as some recent vintages.
About the Producer
Taylors Wines is a family-owned winery established in 1969 which is located in the Clare Valley of South Australia. Taylors is one of the founding members of the Australia's First Families of Wine. Taylors' first wine was the 1973 Taylors Cabernet Sauvignon which was awarded a gold medal at every Australian national wine show where it was entered, since then Taylors Wines has grown to become the largest holding in the Clare Valley. Due to trademark restrictions Taylors Wines trades as Wakefield Wines in the majority of the Northern Hemisphere.
